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He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation t

He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich. – Evelyn Waugh

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One can write, think and pray exclusively of others; dreams are all egocentric. – Evelyn Waugh

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Dreams
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Anyone who has been to an English public school will always feel comparatively at home in prison. It is the people brought up in the gay intimacy of the slums who find prison so soul-destroying. – Evelyn Waugh

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Cunning… is but the low mimic of wisdom. – Plato

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No man was ever wise by chance. – Seneca

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Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerves give to wisdom. – Bernard De Voto

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You want people walking away from the conversation with some kernel of wisdom or some kind of impact. – Harry Dean Stanton

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I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end… I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me. – Abraham Lincoln

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