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" There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence. "

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" Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education. "

" A friend in power is a friend lost. "

" All experience is an arch, to build upon. "

" Intimates are predestined. "

" The difference is slight, to the influence of an author, whether he is read by five hundred readers, or by five hundred thousand; if he can select the five hundred, he reaches the five hundred thousand. "

" Practical politics consists in ignoring facts. "

" Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit. "

" The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends by killing the victim's sympathies. "

" Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels. "

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" Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage. "

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" Man is an imperceptible atom always trying to become one with God. "

" Politics are a very unsatisfactory game. "

" I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a symbolist in literature. Not that I understand what these terms mean, but I take them to be all merely synonyms of pessimist. "

" We combat obstacles in order to get repose, and when got, the repose is insupportable. "

" The press is the hired agent of a monied system, and set up for no other purpose than to tell lies where their interests are involved. One can trust nobody and nothing. "

" Friends are born, not made. "

" He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers. "

" Only on the edge of the grave can man conclude anything. "

" Politics, as a practise, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds. "

" I have written too much history to have faith in it; and if anyone thinks I'm wrong, I am inclined to agree with him. "

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" The American President resembles the commander of a ship at sea. He must have a helm to grasp, a course to steer, a port to seek. "

" Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents had always been tragic. "

" The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence to upset Darwin. "

" A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops. "