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we have always been boodlers and robbers and reivers and pirates and cattle thieves, and so we’ve built up the great tradition that we love . . . But, for the moment, it’s painful. Our present crowd is not more corrupt than Walpole’s. But
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“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”
― Autumn Leaves
― Autumn Leaves
“I have learned now that while those who speak about one's miseries usually hurt, those who keep silence hurt more.”
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“I happen to think Israel is in many ways a noble enterprise, worth defending and supporting, and that Israel's fashionable enemies in the West have allied themselves with some of the nastiest and most bigoted forces now loose in the world.”
― Short Breaks in Mordor: Dawns and Departures of a Scribbler's Life
― Short Breaks in Mordor: Dawns and Departures of a Scribbler's Life
“You only have power over people as long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he's no longer in your power—he's free again.”
― Двести лет вместе
― Двести лет вместе
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