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" Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held. "

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" Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history. "

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" The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different. "

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" So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable. "

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" Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work. "

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" A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor. "

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