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"The true definition of a snob is one who craves for what separates men rather than for what unites them."
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"Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution."

"In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary."

"A man in passion rides a horse that runs away with him."

"There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in."

"The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything."

"In the last analysis, even the best man is evil: in the last analysis, even the best woman is bad."
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"You think that a wall as solid as the earth separates civilization from barbarism. I tell you the division is a thread, a sheet of glass. A touch here, a push there, and you bring back the reign of Saturn."

"Civilization is a conspiracy. Modern life is the silent compact of comfortable folk to keep up pretences."

"There may be Peace without Joy, and Joy without Peace, but the two combined make Happiness."

"The charm of fishing is that it is the pursuit of what is elusive but attainable, a perpetual series of occasions for hope."

"The task of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there."
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