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"The undiscovered country from whose bourn no traveler returns."
"I do think the patriotic thing to do is to critique my country. How else do you make a country better but by pointing out its flaws?"
"Sometimes I wonder if I got lulled into not wanting things because I grew up black in this country."
"Each had defended his own country; the Germans Germany, the Frenchmen France; they had done their duty."
"We do have a problem in this country. You can either make a movie and ignore that, or you can acknowledge it and say, this is the water that we're living in. You know this - the movie lives in this - it's centered around this particular problem, and I chose to acknowledge it."
"What's bad for the country is always good for The Nation."
"To wait for hours to buy a train ticket or to see a doctor is accepted as a normal way of doing things. Privacy is not a great preoccupation, and this is a very crowded country."
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"Genuine good taste consists in saying much in few words, in choosing among our thoughts, in having order and arrangement in what we say, and in speaking with composure."
"Nothing is more despicable than a professional talker who uses his words as a quack uses his remedies."
"All earthly delights are sweeter in expectation than in enjoyment; but all spiritual pleasures more in fruition than in expectation."
"Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half."
"There is a set of religious, or rather moral, writings which teach that virtue is the certain road to happiness, and vice to misery in this world. A very wholesome and comfortable doctrine, and to which we have but one objection, namely, that it is not true."
"Children are excellent observers, and will often perceive your slightest defects. In general, those who govern children, forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves."
"A good historian is timeless; although he is a patriot, he will never flatter his country in any respect."
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