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I love my government not least for the extent to which it leaves me alone. – John Updike

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Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner. – John Updike

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It rots a writers brain, it cretinises you. You say the same thing again and again, and when you do that happily youre well on the way to being a cretin. Or a politician. – John Updike

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Of plants tomatoes seemed the most human, eager and fragile and prone to rot. – John Updike

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A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone. – Henry A. Kissinger

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Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control these three alone lead one to sovereign power. – Alfred Lord Tennyson

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