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Human beings cling to their delicious tyrannies and to their exqui

Human beings cling to their delicious tyrannies and to their exquisite nonsense, till death stares them in the face. – Sydney Smith

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Madam, I have been looking for a person who disliked gravy all my life let us swear eternal friendship. – Sydney Smith

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Friendship
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Sydney Smith
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Correspondences are like small clothes before the invention of suspenders; it is impossible to keep them up. – Sydney Smith

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Letters
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Sydney Smith
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The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race. – Don Marquis

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Humankind

Society has always seemed to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice. – George Orwell

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Humankind

The question is this: Is man an ape or an angel? I am on the side of the angels. – Benjamin Disraeli

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Humankind

It is the nature of mortals to kick a fallen man. – Aeschylus, Agamemnon

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Though I love my country, I do not love my countrymen. – Lord (George Gordon) Byron

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We need leadership. We dont need a doubling down on the failed politics of the past. – Paul Ryan

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I think that politics could be a positive thing. My beef is that people focus on the personal aspect of a politician too much. They should focus on the results. – LL Cool J

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I love a lot of things, and Im pretty much obsessive about most things I do, whether it be gardening, or architecture, or music. Id be an obsessive hairdresser. – Gates McFadden

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