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The financial side is the only view people generally take of any situation.

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People always take refuge in thinking that those who tell them uncomfortable truths are lunatics

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The art of conversation is almost a lost one. People talk as they ride bicycles — at a rush — without pausing to consider their surroundings.

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The careful student of history cannot fail to notice that whenever the rottenness and inadequacy of a Government are most apparent, great 'shows' and Royal ceremonials are always resorted to, in order to divert the minds of the people from the better consideration of a deficient Exchequer and a diminishing National Honour.

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'Odd' people are always infinitely diverting, owing to their never being able to recognise their own abnormal absurdity.

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One must have enemies in this world, — that is, if one makes any sort of position, — people without enemies are generally nonentities.

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I am a lonely creature, disliked by many people and in the literary career I have adopted I fight a desperately hard battle, and often crave for a little, just a little sympathetic comprehension.

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