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“The French are very individualistic.”
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“It is a base thing for a man to wax old in careless self-neglect before he has lifted up his eyes and seen what manner of man he was made to be, in the full perfection of bodily strength and beauty. But these glories are withheld from him who is guilty of self-neglect, for they are not wont to blaze forth unbidden.”
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“I don't want the George Clooney lifelong bachelorhood. If I found the right person, I would commit in a minute.”
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“Somebody has to be prepared to be the good guy from time to time in order for the human race to prosper, though most people don't want it to be them.”
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“Laws must never be made compatible with crimes, no more than lying should be in harmony with the truth.”
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“Really? What did you cost me again? I ask. A lot of trouble. Don't worry. You'll get it all back,he says.”
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“No principle of general law is more universally acknowledged, than the perfect equality of nations. Russia and Geneva have equal rights. It results from this equality, that no one can rightfully impose a rule on another....As no nation can prescribe a rule for others, none can make a law of nations.”
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“Nothing great has been and nothing great can be accomplished without passion. It is only a dead, too often, indeed, a hypocriticalmoralizing which inveighs against the form of passion as such.”
