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When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion.
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Dale Carnegie Quotes

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I've met so many people, often the scum of the earth, and found them, you know, quite decent. I am an uncomfortable stranger to moral indignation.
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W. Somerset Maugham Quotes

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Freaks are the much needed escape from the humdrum. They are poetry.
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Albert Perry Quotes

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Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.
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Benjamin Franklin Quotes

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History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
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Abba Eban Quotes

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A hundred men together are the hundredth part of a man.
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Antonio Porchia Quotes

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A small man can be just as exhausted as a great man.
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Arthur Miller Quotes

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In general, of course, a stranger who tries to get you into an automobile is anything but noble, and in general a person who quotes great American novelists is anything but treacherous, and in general a man who says you needn't worry about money, or a man who smokes cigarettes, is somewhere in between.
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Lemony Snicket Quotes

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If we had no faults of our own, we would not take so much pleasure in noticing those of others.
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François Duc de La Rochefoucauld Quotes

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Those who are quite satisfied sit still and do nothing; those who are not quite satisfied are the sole benefactors of the world.
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Walter Savage Landor Quotes

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A man never knows how to say goodbye; a woman never knows when to say it.
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Helen Rowland Quotes

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He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
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Winston Churchill Quotes

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His voice was as intimate as the rustle of sheets.
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Dorothy Parker Quotes

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The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.
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Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes

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A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.
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Winston Churchill Quotes

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You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door.
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Henry Ward Beecher Quotes

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Why are there men and women that while they are nigh me the sunlight expands my blood? Why when they leave me do my pennants of joy sink flat and lank?
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Walt Whitman Quotes

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The total history of almost anyone would shock almost everyone.
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Mignon McLaughlin Quotes

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