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"Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others, and this is a gift interred only by the self."

"The White House Correspondents' Dinner should have been more appropriately called the Sycophants' Supper. Would that it was the last such supper."

"To Dogmatism the Spirit of Inquiry is the same as the Spirit of Evil."

"Hist, now, between you an' meself and the stanchion there, this Wolf Larsen is a regular devil, an' the Ghost'll be a hell ship like she's always been since he had hold iv her."

"Of course, if you assume a big enough conspiracy, you can explain anything, including the cosmos itself."

"A greedy man will always find himself in the shackles of humility."

"The greatest gift the Parsis have bestowed on India is in your own good self."

"Self-pity in its early stages is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable."

"My job is simply to be myself, to be Ayumi Hamasaki."

"No country can squander itself to prosperity on the ruin of its taxpayers."

"Koning was a self-made expert. She snuggled what she’d bought in the nest she had made of shredded grimoires and scrunched-up rules of engagement. She watched it. It did nothing."

"Giraldus, garrulous, egotistic, spiteful, as he is, makes us half forget his faults in the endless instruction, the endless amusement, of his pages."

"Inner travel is a blessed journey. So it is complete now in good manner. Then who can object the worldly travel?"

"He hated the idea of eulogizing himself. Some tasks are best left to others, surely including obituaries."

"• Hazing is both testing and training to subordinate self to the team."

"The ultimate touchstone of constitutionality is the Constitution itself and not what we have said about it."

"If someone corrects you, and you feel offended, then you have an ego problem."

"The Gospel According to Spiritism by Allan Kardec"

"There should be no bank too big to fail and no individual too big to jail."

"Pursued by our origins...we all are."