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"People always overdo the matter when they attempt deception."
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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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"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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"There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness."
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"I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal."
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"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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"We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones."
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"Some people break promises for the pleasure of breaking them."
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"I do give books as gifts sometimes, when people would rather have one than a new Ferrari."
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"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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"People always overdo the matter when they attempt deception."
People
"One of the best things in the world to be is a boy; it requires no experience, but needs some practice to be a good one."
Experience
"Goodness comes out of people who bask in the sun, as it does out of a sweet apple roasted before the fire."
People
"The thing generally raised on city land is taxes."
Land
"There is no such thing as absolute value in this world. You can only estimate what a thing is worth to you."
Values
"A great artist can paint a great picture on a small canvas."
Art
"How many wars have been caused by fits of indigestion, and how many more dynasties have been upset by the love of woman than by the hate of man."
Love
"It is fortunate that each generation does not comprehend its own ignorance. We are thus enabled to call our ancestors barbarous."
Ignorance
"Mud-pies gratify one of our first and best instincts. So long as we are dirty, we are pure."
Leisure
"There is nothing that disgusts a man like getting beaten at chess by a woman."
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