"Men will forgive a man anything except bad prose."
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"Of all the talents bestowed upon men, none is so precious as the gift of oratory. He who enjoys it wields a power more durable than that of a great king. He is an independent force in the world."
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"I liked wine, both red and white, and especially Champagne; and on very special occasions I could even drink a small glass of brandy."
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"If we look to our responsibility to the generations yet unborn who will come after us, how can we fail to recognize that peace and freedom are inextricably bound up one with another and that the threat to one is a threat to both"
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"Those good at war aren't good at peace, and those good at peace aren't good at war."
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"If Hitler invaded Hell, I'd find something nice to say about the Devil himself."
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"There are two processes which we adopt consciously or unconsciously when we try to prophesy. We can seek a period in the past whose conditions resemble as closely as possible those of our day, and presume that the sequel to that period will, save for some minor alterations, be similar. Secondly, we can survey the general course of development in our immediate past, and endeavor to prolong it into the near future. The first is the method the historian; the second that of the scientist. Only the second is open to us now, and this only in a partial sphere."
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"The element of the unexpected and the unforeseeable is what gives some of its relish to life and saves us from falling into the mechanical thralldom of the logicians."
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"Art is to beauty what honor is to honesty."
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"In war, truth is often the first casualty."
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"Writing ... it begins as an amusement, then it becomes a mistress, then a master, and finally a tyrant."
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"The people of Asia were slaves, because they had not learned how to pronounce the word 'no'."
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