#wil

Those that despise people will never get the best out of others and themselves. ↗

— Alexis de Tocqueville

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An American cannot converse, but he can discuss, and his talk falls into a dissertation. He speaks to you as if he was addressing a meeting; and if he should chance to become warm in the discussion, he will say "Gentlemen" to the person with whom he is conversing. ↗

— Alexis de Tocqueville

#american #become #cannot #chance #converse

Consider any individual at any period of his life, and you will always find him preoccupied with fresh plans to increase his comfort. ↗

— Alexis de Tocqueville

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Grant me thirty years of equal division of inheritances and a free press, and I will provide you with a republic. ↗

— Alexis de Tocqueville

#equal #free #free press #grant #i

In these highways our engineering will reflect the National Socialist movement. ↗

— Fritz Todt

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I've been playing tennis, and just whatever sport is in front of me I will do. ↗

— Jeanne Tripplehorn

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A man's mind will very gradually refuse to make itself up until it is driven and compelled by emergency. ↗

— Anthony Trollope

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Never think that you're not good enough. A man should never think that. People will take you very much at your own reckoning. ↗

— Anthony Trollope

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It is necessary to get a lot of men together, for the show of the thing, otherwise the world will not believe. That is the meaning of committees. But the real work must always be done by one or two men. ↗

— Anthony Trollope

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This at least should be a rule through the letter-writing world: that no angry letter be posted till four-and-twenty hours will have elapsed since it was written. ↗

— Anthony Trollope

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