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"Few people at the beginning of the nineteenth century needed an adman to tell them what they wanted."
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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."

"He makes people pleased with him by making them first pleased with themselves."

"People are always good company when they are doing what they really enjoy."

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"Some people bear three kinds of trouble - the ones they've had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have."
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"Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable."


"Wealth is not without its advantages and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely persuasive."


"Meetings are a great trap. Soon you find yourself trying to get agreement and then the people who disagree come to think they have a right to be persuaded. However, they are indispensable when you don't want to do anything."


"We can safely abandon the doctrine of the eighties, namely that the rich were not working because they had too little money, the poor because they had much."


"Much literary criticism comes from people for whom extreme specialization is a cover for either grave cerebral inadequacy or terminal laziness, the latter being a much cherished aspect of academic freedom."
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