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"You don't want to dwell on your enemies, you know. I basically feel so superior to my critics for the simple reason that they haven't done what I do. Most book reviewers haven't written 11 novels. Many of them haven't written one."
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"'Tis best to weigh the enemy more mighty than he seems."
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"The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink."
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"Friends come and go but enemies accumulate."
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"When I'm left on my own I'm my own worst enemy."
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"The soldier's main enemy is not the opposing soldier, but his own commander."
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"It's hard to be done a favor by a man you hate. It's hard to hate him so much afterwards. Losing an enemy can be worse than losing a friend, if you've had him for long enough."
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"Enemies make you stronger, allies make you weaker."
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"Let the poor man count as his enemy, and his worst enemy, every invader of the right of free discussion."
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"One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good."
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"Parents forgive their children least readily for the faults they themselves instilled in them."
Family
"Little evil would be done in the world if evil never could be done in the name of good."
Evil
"Exceptions are not always the proof of the old rule; they can also be the harbinger of a new one."
Old
"We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack."
Love
"If you have one good idea, people will lend you twenty."
People
"The poor man wishes to conceal his poverty, and the rich man his wealth: the former fears lest he be despised, the latter lest he be plundered."
Man
"To be content with little is hard; to be content with much, impossible."
Content
"None are so eager to gain new experience as those who don't know how to make use of the old ones."
Experience
"So soon as a fashion is universal, it is out of date."
Fashion
"In youth we learn; in age we understand."
Age
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