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A poor man with nothing in his belly needs hope, illusion, more than bread.
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A poor relation is the most irrelevant thing in nature, a piece of impertinent correspondence, an odious approximation, a haunting conscience, a preposterous shadow, lengthening in the noon-tide of our prosperity. He is known by his knock.
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A President is best judged by the enemies he makes when he has really hit his stride.
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A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense and to permit him to stand beyond it in an autonomy of perception and judgment.
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A prince never lacks legitimate reasons to break his promise.
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A prince or general can best demonstrate his genius by managing a campaign exactly to suit his objectives and his resources, doing neither too much nor too little.
On War (1832) -
A professional; is someone who can do his best work when he doesn't feel like it.
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A promising young man should go into politics so that he can go on promising for the rest of his life.
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A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you're looking down, you can't see something that's above you.
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A public man must never forget that he loses his usefulness when he as an individual, rather than his policy, becomes the issue.
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A racing tipster who only reached Hitler's level of accuracy would not do well for his clients.
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A real Christian is a person who can give his pet parrot to the town gossip.
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A recession is when your neighbor loses his job. A depression is when you lose yours.
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A rioter with a Molotov cocktail in his hands is not fighting for civil rights any more than a Klansman with a sheet on his back and a mask on his face.
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A roast is like a get-together where people come down and talk about you and dog you out, the way you came up, the knucklehead things that you did, stuff like that.
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A Roman divorced from his wife, being highly blamed by his friends, who demanded, ''Was she not chaste? Was she not fair? Was she not fruitful?'' holding out his shoe, asked them whether it was not new and well made. ''Yet,'' added he, ''none of you can tell where it pinches me.
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A rule I have had for years is: to treat the Lord Jesus Christ as a personal friend. His is not a creed, a mere doctrine, but it is He Himself we have.
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A screen actor is compensated in the knowledge that millions will see his performance at one time, where only hundreds will see it on the stage.
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