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I sometimes give myself admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.

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Hear one side and you will be in the dark. Hear both and all will be clear.

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Every man becomes, to a certain degree, what the people he generally converses with are.

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If you can once engage people's pride, love, pity, ambition on your side, you need not fear what their reason can do against you.

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You must look into people as well as at them.

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Politicians neither love nor hate. Interest, not sentiment, directs them.

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The only solid and lasting peace between a man and his wife is, doubtless, a separation.

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The heart never grows better by age; I fear rather worse, always harder. A young liar will be an old one, and a young knave will only be a greater knave as he grows older.

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To have frequent recourse to narrative betrays great want of imagination.

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Custom has made dancing sometimes necessary for a young man; therefore mind it while you learn it, that you may learn to do it well, and not be ridiculous, though in a ridiculous act.

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Statesman

Born: September 22nd, 1694

Died: March 24th, 1773

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