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• The man who says what he thinks is finished, and the man who thinks what he says is an idiot.
• Chief of the Army. -- Napoleon I [Napoleon Bonaparte], 1821.
• Put a rogue in the limelight and he will act like an honest man. -- Napoleon Bonaparte, "Maxim
• The only thing worse than an expert is someone who thinks he's an expert.
• A politician is a man who stands for what he thinks the voters will fall for.
• The wisest man is generally he who thinks himself the least so. -- Boileau
• In war it is not men, but the man who counts. -- Napoleo
• The egoist in the absolute sense is not the man who sacrifices others.
  He is the man who stands above the need of using others in any manner....
• As I was going up the stair I met a man who wasn't there.
  He wasn't there again today. I wish, I wish he'd stay away. -- Hughes Mearns, _The Psychoed_...