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Find enough clever things to say, and you're a Prime Minister; write them down and you're a Shakespeare.

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I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me.

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There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.

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You can always tell an old soldier by the inside of his holsters and cartridge boxes. The young ones carry pistols and cartridges; the old ones, grub.

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The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business.

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Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman, but believing what he read made him mad.

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Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.

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Clever and attractive women do not want to vote; they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.

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In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.

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Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.

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Never fret for an only son, the idea of failure will never occur to him.

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Political necessities sometime turn out to be political mistakes.

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Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends.

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Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.

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Independence? That's middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.

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I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes the illness worth while.

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Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get.

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If there was nothing wrong in the world there wouldn't be anything for us to do.

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No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.

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When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.

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Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.

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Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.

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Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.

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Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die; do not outlive yourself.

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The art of government is the organisation of idolatry.

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The secret to success is to offend the greatest number of people.

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Syllables govern the world.

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The natural term of the affection of the human animal for its offspring is six years.

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You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.

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We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.

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I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.

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Every person who has mastered a profession is a skeptic concerning it.

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When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.

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The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation.

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A man never tells you anything until you contradict him.

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I want to destroy ownership in order that possession and enjoyment may be raised to the highest point in every section of the community.

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