"A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him."

-- Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

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“The vices of the rich and great are mistaken for error; and those of the poor and lowly, for crimes.”
“Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.”
“Thousands are the children of poor foreigners who have permitted them to grow up without school, education, or religion.Â All the neglect and bad education and evil example of a poor class tend to form others, who, as they mature, swell the ranks of ruffians and criminals.Â So, at length, a great multitude of ignorant, untrained, passionate, irreligious boys and young men are formed who become the 'dangerous class' in their city.”

Source : "The Dangerous Classes of New York and Twenty Years' Work Among Them".
“You consider war to be inevitable? Very good. Let everyone who advocates war be enrolled in a special regiment of advance-guards, for the front of every storm, of every attack, to lead them all!”
“They are slaves who fear to speak For the fallen and the weak; They are slaves who will not choose Hatred, scoffing, and abuse, Rather than in silence shrink From the truth they needs must think; They are slaves who dare not be In the right with two or three.”
“The greatest advantage in gambling lies in not playing at all.”

Source : "Liber de ludo aleae". Book by Gerolamo Cardano, 1560.
“I think the daily challenge for a lot of beat reporters is, how do you get past the regurgitated sound bites of powerful people or evasion masters who are so used to this routine - the theatricality of press conferences and stage-managed interviews and teams of handlers?”
“Christmas was the one time of year when my brothers surfaced at home, when my parents and grandparents congregated to eat my mother's roast turkey.”

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