Quote by Paul Valery
Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves w

Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business. – Paul Valery

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In poetry everything which must be said is almost impossible to say well. – Paul Valery

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To do a dull thing with style-now thats what I call art. – Charles Bukowski

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Really I dont like human nature unless all candied over with art. – Virginia Woolf

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Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well but their manners should be of the greatest concern. – R. Buckminster Fuller

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The best part of the art of living is to know how to grow old gracefully. – Eric Hoffer

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