"Being wise doth either make men our friends or discourage them from being our enemies."

-- George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax

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“I'm a lapsed Buddhist like I'm a lapsed Catholic. I take it to a point.”

Source : Interview by Christopher Kompanek, www.avclub.com. March 23, 2012.
“Admit nothing, deny everything, launch counterattack.”
“Hate no one, no matter how much they've wronged you. Live humbly, no matter how wealthy you become. Think positively, no matter how hard life is. Give much, even if you've been given little. Keep in touch with the ones who have forgotten you, and forgive who has wronged you, and do not stop praying for the best for those you love.”
“Show me a good sportsman and I'll show you a player I'm looking to trade.”
“No one hangs up the phone until the customer buys or dies.”
“Regret of neglected opportunity is the worst hell that a living soul can inhabit.”

Source : Rafael Sabatini (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Rafael Sabatini (Illustrated)”, p.2829, Delphi Classics
“With everyone born human, a poet - an artist - is born, who dies young and who is survived by an adult.”
“And that, I think, was the handle--that sense of inevitable victory over the forces of Old and Evil. Not in any mean or military sense; we didn't need that. Our energy would simply prevail. There was no point in fighting--on our side or theirs. We had all the momentum; we were riding the crest of a high and beautiful wave. So now, less than five years later, you can go up on a steep hill in Las Vegas and look West, and with the right kind of eyes you can almost see the high-water mark--the place where the wave finally broke and rolled back.”

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