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Otto von Bismarck:

Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war.

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Charles Kettering:

My definition of an educated man is the fellow who knows the right thing to do at the time it has to be done. You can be sincere and still be stupid.

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Elie Mystal:

The thought that a person can say racist things and somehow not be “a racist” is a concept that’s almost entirely invented by white people. It is a complete fiction some white people tell themselves so they do not have to hold fellow whites accountable for their racism.

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Robert van Gulik:

Unbidden advice is never welcome.

van Gulik, Robert, The Chinese Maze Murders (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1997), p. 43.

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Edmund Burke:

Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.

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Robert van Gulik:

Judge Dee stroked his beard. He reflected that is host was an extremely astute man. He said so much that he said practically nothing.

van Gulik, Robert, The Chinese Maze Murders (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1997), p. 145.

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Harry Truman:

I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

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Mark Twain:

Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.

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Alice B. Toklas:

What is sauce for the goose may be sauce for the gander but is not necessarily sauce for the chicken, the duck, the turkey or the guinea hen.

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Carolyn Jones (as Morticia Addams):

A happy child is merely an unhappy child who’s having fun.

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Nellie Bly:

It is only after one is in trouble that one realizes how little sympathy and kindness there are in the world.

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Seneca:

Luck is where opportunity meets preparation.

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Goodman Ace:

I keep reading between the lies.

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William Hazlitt:

The only vice that cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy.

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Rex Stout (in the voice of Archie Goodwin):

I made a note to quit trying to understand women and start trying to understand men.

Stout, Rex, Too Many Women (New York: Bantam, 1949), p. 90

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Elinor Glyn:

American husbands are the best in the world; no other husbands are so generous to their wives, or can be so easily divorced.

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Chauncey Depew:

It is a pity that instead of the Pilgrim Fathers landing on Plymouth Rock, Plymouth Rock had not landed on the Pilgrim Fathers.

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Rex Stout:

A tiger’s eyes can’t make light, . . . they only reflect it.

Stout, Rex, Too Many Women (New York: Bantam, 1949) p. 50

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Nancy Astor:

The first time Adam had a chance, he laid the blame on women.

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Grace Slick:

No matter how big or soft or warm your bed is, you still have to get out of it.

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