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"Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine."
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"I obtain great satisfaction out of using my intellect."
"Flippancy, the most hopeless form of intellectual vice."
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"No one knows a man better than himself."
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"Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine."
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"To put it rather bluntly, I am not the type who wants to go back to the land; I am the type who wants to go back to the hotel."
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