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"Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held."
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"The whole basis of the United Nations is the right of all nations - great or small - to have weight, to have a vote, to be attended to, to be a part of the twentieth century."
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"It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are the rest of the nation."
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"Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right."
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"No holidays, no country."
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"The country is provincial; it becomes ridiculous when it tries to ape Paris."
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"Switzerland is a country where very few things begin, but many things end."
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"We have record high temperatures and record high energy prices across the country, and we've seen the dangerous effects caused by extreme temperatures in the past."
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"The U.S. has the finest research scientists in the world, but we are falling far behind other countries, like South Korea and Singapore, that are moving forward with embryonic stem cell research."
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"Hungary is very similar to Bulgaria. I know they're different countries."
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"The country is provincial; it becomes ridiculous when it tries to ape Paris."
Nation

"We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are."
Happiness

"At fifteen, beauty and talent do not exist; there can only be promise of the coming woman."
Beauty

"Towns find it as hard as houses of business to rise again from ruin."
Business

"The fact is that love is of two kinds, one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite distinct, and the passion to which the one gives rise is not the passion of the other."
Love

"Unintelligent persons are like weeds that thrive in good ground; they love to be amused in proportion to the degree in which they weary themselves."
Love

"Small natures require despotism to exercise their sinews, as great souls thirst for equality to give play to their heart."
Equality

"The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman."
Passion

"Virtue, perhaps, is nothing more than politeness of soul."
Soul

"It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time."
Time
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