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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."

"There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing."

"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."

"People do not understand what a great revenue economy is."

"It's no good trying to keep up old friendships. It's painful for both sides. The fact is, one grows out of people, and the only thing is to face it."
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"A monarchy conducted with infinite wisdom and infinite benevolence is the most perfect of all possible governments."

"All the forms of civil polity have been tried by mankind, except one, and that seems to have been reserved in Providence to be realized in America."

"There are reasons for believing that the English increase will far surpass others, and that the diffusion of the United States will ultimately produce the general population of America."

"It gives me pleasure to find that public liberty is effectually secured in each and all the policies of the United States, though somewhat differently modeled."

"The greater part of the governments on earth may be termed monarchical aristocracies, or hereditary dominions independent of the people."

"We stand a better chance with aristocracy, whether hereditary or elective, than with monarchy."

"In justice to human society it may perhaps be said of almost all the polities and civil institutions in the world, however imperfect, that they have been founded in and carried on with very considerable wisdom."

"Let a bill, or law, be read, in the one branch or the other, every one instantly thinks how it will affect his constituents."
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