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The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.
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How does one kill fear, I wonder? How do you shoot a specter through the heart, slash off its spectral head, take it by its spectral throat?
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Gossip is what no one claims to like, but everybody enjoys.
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Nations it may be have fashioned their Governments, but the Governments have paid them back in the same coin.
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As to honor, you know, it's a very fine mediaeval inheritance which women never got hold of. It wasn't theirs.
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A caricature is putting the face of a joke on the body of a truth.
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Only in men's imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.
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To a teacher of languages there comes a time when the world is but a place of many words and man appears a mere talking animal not much more wonderful than a parrot.
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It's extraordinary how we go through life with eyes half shut, with dull ears, with dormant thoughts. Perhaps it's just as well; and it may be that it is this very dullness that makes life to the incalculable majority so supportable and so welcome.
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Some great men owe most of their greatness to the ability of detecting in those they destine for their tools the exact quality of strength that matters for their work.
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What all men are really after is some form, or perhaps only some formula, of peace.
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He who wants to persuade should put his trust not in the right argument, but in the right word. The power of sound has always been greater than the power of sense.
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