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The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.
so true
“A beautiful woman looking at her image in the mirror may very well believe the image is herself. An ugly woman knows it is not.”
― Waiting for God
― Waiting for God
“Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating.”
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“Under capitalism, man exploits man; while under socialism just the reverse is true.”
― A Life in Our Times: Memoirs
― A Life in Our Times: Memoirs
“Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.”
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“Hypocrisy is a tribute that vice pays to virtue.”
― Reflections or Sentences and Moral Maxims
― Reflections or Sentences and Moral Maxims
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