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Speak well, but speak little.
Most men make little other use of their speech than to give evidence against their own understanding.
[Definition of] Class: when they’re running you out of town, to look like you’re leading the parade.
Always deny what you don’t want to be known, and always affirm what you want to be believed.
…that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.
It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong—but that is the way to bet.
Liberty means responsibility, that is why most men dread it.

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Prejudice is the raft unto which the ship-wrecked mind clambers and paddles to safety.
Politicians neither love nor hate. Interest, not sentiment, directs them.
Acquire a good reputation, then go to sleep.