“Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, but your government only when it deserves it.”
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“It may be called the Master Passion—the hunger for Self-Approval.”
“Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work.”
“Fame is a vapor; popularity an accident; the only earthly certainty is oblivion.”
“If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.”
“It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare.”
“I haven't a particle of confidence in a man who has no redeeming petty vices whatsoever.”
“He had only one vanity; he thought he could give advice better than any other person.”
“Your race, in its poverty, has unquestionably one really effective weapon—laughter.”
“It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.”
“What a pity that in life we only get our lessons when they are of no use to us.”
“Gossip is charming! History is merely gossip. But scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.”
“Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.”
“Men marry because they are tired; women because they are curious. Both are disappointed.”