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• Man has always found it easier to sacrifice his life than to learn the multiplication table.
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• I'll give you my opinion of the human race in a nutshell .
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• You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency.
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• You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency.
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• People are never so ready to believe you as when you say things in dispraise of yourself
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• Tradition is a guide and not a jailer. -- W. Somerset Maugham