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"Talk to strangers politely. You don't how many of them will become your close companions."

"Women love with their ears, men with their eyes."

"We're living in a teetering tower of babble. A shaky reality of words. A DNA soup for disaster. The natural world destroyed, we're left with this cluttered world of language."

"Have more than thou showest Speak less than thou knowest."

"Good news didn't seem real until you'd told at least a dozen friends."

"If you do not tell me, I don't wish to know."

"The new contract between writers and readers is one I'm prepared to sign up to. I've met some fascinating people at events and online. Down with the isolation of writers I say! And long live Twitter."

"Words can express true feelings, true emotions and wisdom. It is up to you to use them wisely... Choose your words carefully and express the peacefully!"

"Be polite in your speeches. Good information rudely communicated will make no positive difference."
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"I have found some of the best reasons I ever had for remaining at the bottom simply by looking at the men at the top."

"That is the consolation of a little mind; you have the fun of changing it without impeding the progress of mankind."

"If a large city can, after intense intellectual efforts, choose for its mayor a man who merely will not steal from it, we consider it a triumph of the suffrage."

"We always carry out by committee anything in which any one of us alone would be too reasonable to persist."

"A 'new thinker', when studied closely, is merely a man who does not know what other people have thought."

"Clever people seem not to feel the natural pleasure of bewilderment, and are always answering questions when the chief relish of a life is to go on asking them."

"I know of no more disagreeable situation than to be left feeling generally angry without anybody in particular to be angry at."

"Politics is a place of humble hopes and strangely modest requirements, where all are good who are not criminal and all are wise who are not ridiculously otherwise."

"The New York playgoer is a child of nature, and he has an honest and wholesome regard of whatever is atrocious in art."
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