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"Clever and attractive women do not want to vote; they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men."
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"I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity."
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"You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with."
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"The first time I sang in the church choir; two hundred people changed their religion."
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"People care more about being thought to have taste than about being thought either good, clever or amiable."
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"Many clever men like you have trusted to civilization. Many clever Babylonians, many clever Egyptians, many clever men at the end of Rome. Can you tell me, in a world that is flagrant with the failures of civilisation, what there is particularly immortal about yours?"
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"All dogs look up to you. All cats look down on you. Only the pig looks at you as an equal"
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"Find enough clever things to say, and you're a Prime Minister; write them down and you're a Shakespeare."
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"Alpha children wear grey. They work much harder than we do, because they're so frightfully clever. I'm awfully glad I'm a Beta, because I don't work so hard. And then we are much better than the Gammas and Deltas. Gammas are stupid. They all wear green, and Delta children wear khaki. Oh no, I don't want to play with Delta children. And Epsilons are still worse. They're too stupid to be able to read or write. Besides they wear black, which is such a beastly color. I'm so glad I'm a Beta."
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"He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else."
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"The secret of the demagogue is to make himself as stupid as his audience so they believe they are clever as he."
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"All great events hang by a single thread. The clever man takes advantage of everything, neglects nothing that may give him some added opportunity; the less clever man, by neglecting one thing, sometimes misses everything."
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"There are no accidents so unlucky from which clever people are not able to reap some advantage, and none so lucky that the foolish are not able to turn them to their own disadvantage."
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"Here we are, the most clever species ever to have lived. So how is it we can destroy the only planet we have?"
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"It's the people who try to be clever who never are; the people who are clever never think of trying to be."
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"Look for the answer inside your question."
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"A mind that is always comparing, always measuring, will always engender illusion. If I am measuring myself against you, who are clever, more intelligent, I am struggling to be like you and I am denying myself as I am. I am creating an illusion."
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"A female friend, amiable, clever, and devoted, is a possession more valuable than parks and palaces; and without such a muse, few men can succeed in life, none be contented."
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"The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources."
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