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"I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power."

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Indira Gandhi Politician
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"I think I'm cold, indeed icy, hard. Then there's another reason, one that goes with my frankness: I don't put on act."

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Oscar Wilde Writer
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"At six o'clock we cleaned our cells, At seven all was still, But the sough and swing of a mighty wing The prison seemed to fill, For the Lord of Death with icy breath Had entered in to kill."

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Gore Vidal Writer, Essayist, Playwright
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"I have begun writing what I have said I'd never write, a memoir ("I am not my own subject," I used to say with icy superiority)."

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Honore de Balzac Novelist
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"Many of us marvel at the icy insensitivity with which women snuff out their armours. But if they did not blot out the past in this manner, life for them would lose all dignity and they could never resist the fatal familiarities to which they once submitted."

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