"High and fine literature is wine, and mine is only water; but everybody likes water."
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"The first step towards vice is to shroud innocent actions in mystery, and whoever likes to conceal something sooner or later has reason to conceal it."
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"Several classical sayings that one likes to repeat had quite a different meaning from the ones later times attributed to them."
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"Innocence ends when one is stripped of the delusion that one likes oneself."
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"It's very gratifying that someone likes what you're selling."
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"I'm the kind of woman that likes to enjoy herselves in peace."
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"Love likes to extend itself. If you receive it in a book - or however you get it - then your duty is to extend it beyond."
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"Failure is where success likes to hide in plain sight."
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"To negotiate is not to do as one likes."
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"No one likes having offended another person; hence everyone feels so much better if the other person doesn't show he's been offended. Nobody likes being confronted by a wounded spaniel. Remember that. It is much easier patiently - and tolerantly - to avoid the person you have injured than to approach him as a friend. You need courage for that."
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"A medical man likes to make psychological observations, and sometimes in the pursuit of such studies is too easily tempted into momentous prophecy which life and death easily set at nought."
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"Although the Senate is much given to admiring in its members a superiority less obvious or quite invisible to outsiders, one Senator seldom proclaims his own inferiority to another, and still more seldom likes to be told of it."
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"He knows all about art, but he doesn't know what he likes."
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"Senator McCain likes to talk about judgment, but really, what does it say about your judgment when you think George Bush has been right more than ninety percent of the time? I don't know about you, but I'm not ready to take a ten percent chance on change."
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"John McCain likes to say that he'll follow bin Laden to the Gates of Hell - but he won't even go to the cave where he lives."
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"Nobody likes taxes. I would prefer that none of us had to pay taxes, including myself."
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"Donald Trump is somebody who I think likes to mix it up and to have a vigorous debate."
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"He who least likes courting favour, ought also least to think of resenting neglect; to feel wounded at being refused a distinction can only arise from an overweening appetite to have it."
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"Everybody likes compliment."
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"No man likes to be smoked out of his hole in February."
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