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My lack of access to the real world has been replaced completely by books, and it can’t be healthy to live in a land of happily ever afters.
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I've always shied away from conventional wisdom, though I know the power of it.
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There may be in every government a few choice spirits, who may act from more worthy motives. One great error is that we suppose mankind more honest than they are. Our prevailing passions are ambition and interest...
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The only way you can do that [decrease taxes, balance the budget, and increase military spending] is with mirrors....
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There is a certain cowardice, a certain weakness, rather, among respectable folk. Only brigands are convinced-of what? That they must succeed. And so they do succeed.
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The best revenge is living well.
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There are two things worth living for, one is a good cigar, the other is a better one.
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But I don't work out. I pay people to do that for me.
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A chief petty officer taught me shorthand, which got me promoted to yeoman first class.
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The more I separate myself from my upbringing, the more I appreciate what it's done for me.
