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"Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions."
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"The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone."
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Personal Development
"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."
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Personal Development
"There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness."
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Personal Development
"There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing."
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Personal Development
"We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones."
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Personal Development
"I do give books as gifts sometimes, when people would rather have one than a new Ferrari."
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Personal Development
"If something in your writing gives support to people in their lives, that's more than just entertainment-which is what we writers all struggle to do, to touch people."
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"Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can't quite name."
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"The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action."
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"For just when ideas fail, a word comes in to save the situation."
Creativity
"There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they laugh at."
People
"The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim."
Character
"The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves."
Government
"The biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality."
Art
"A clever man commits no minor blunders."
Man
"I will listen to anyone's convictions, but pray keep your doubts to yourself."
Will
"Doubt grows with knowledge."
Knowledge
"Every step of life shows much caution is required."
Life
"What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely."
Life
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