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So long as war is the main business of nations, temporary despotism - despotism during the campaign - is indispensable.
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It is often said that men are ruled by their imaginations; but it would be truer to say they are governed by the weakness of their imaginations.
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The greatest mistake is trying to be more agreeable than you can be.
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I started out by believing God for a newer car than the one I was driving. I started out believing God for a nicer apartment than I had. Then I moved up.
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The cure for admiring the House of Lords is to go and look at it.
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A man's mother is his misfortune, but his wife is his fault.
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It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations.
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Writers like teeth are divided into incisors and grinders.
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The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything.
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So long as there are earnest believers in the world, they will always wish to punish opinions, even if their judgment tells them it is unwise and their conscience that it is wrong.
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Nothing is more unpleasant than a virtuous person with a mean mind.
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No great work has ever been produced except after a long interval of still and musing meditation.
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