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The best client is a scared millionaire.


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Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.




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The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.



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It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office.



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The charges we bring against others often come home to ourselves; we inveigh against faults which are as much ours as theirs; and so our eloquence ends by telling against ourselves.

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