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We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it


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The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one.

The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one.



Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.



Always forgive your enemies nothing annoys them so much.

Always forgive your enemies nothing annoys them so much.



It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.

It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.



Everyone may not be good, but there's always something good in everyone. Never judge anyone shortly because every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.

Everyone may not be good, but there's always something good in everyone. Never judge anyone shortly because every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.



To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.



Be yourself; everyone else is taken.

Be yourself; everyone else is taken.



Women are made to be loved, not understood.

Women are made to be loved, not understood.



Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.



I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.





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I wanted to cry, but the tears did not come.

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We get so caught up in what a man isn't. It's what he is that counts.

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I've been given so much, and if I can just give back a tenth of what I've been given, then it's all worth it.

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Reagan is the Republican FDR, an exemplar of presidential greatness.

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Dead souls dream only of death. Small dreams for small men. It is life that expands to fill worlds. Life is your master, or death is

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People see my impressions as a great skill and I am flattered, but there are things I can't do that everyone else can. I can do funny voices and funny faces but I can't drive.

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We turn to Marx, therefore, not because he is infallible, but because he is inescapable.

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In my own case, the most inflammatory statements I have ever made are ones that I have written and remain willing to defend.

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Politics is a dirty business, but if you do not do politics, politics will be done to you.

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