Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue.

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War remains the decisive human failure.

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In economics, the majority is always wrong.

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Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.

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We have escapist fiction, so why not escapist biography?

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We all agree that pessimism is a mark of superior intellect.

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Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.

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All successful revolutions are the kicking in of a rotten door.

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More die in the United States of too much food than of too little.

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Of all classes the rich are the most noticed and the least studied.

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