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I have not the slightest pretension to call my verses poetry; I write now and then for no other purpose than to relieve depression or to improve my English.

Alfred Nobel

A heart can no more be forced to love than a stomach can be forced to digest food by persuasion.
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Force Heart Love Stomach
Lawyers have to make a living, and can only do so by inducing people to believe that a straight line is crooked.
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Believe Law Live People
For my part, I wish all guns with their belongings and everything could be sent to hell, which is the proper place for their exhibition and use.
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Hell Place Proper Weapon
I am a misanthrope yet utterly benevolent.
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Myself Personality
The savants will write excellent volumes. There will be laureates. But wars will continue just the same until the forces of the circumstances render them impossible.
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Excellence Force Impossible Volume War Writing
Lying is the greatest of all sins.
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Greatness Lying One Liner Sin
Justice is to be found only in the imagination.
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Imagination Justice
The only true solution would be a convention under which all the governments would bind themselves to defend collectively any country that was attacked.
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Attack Country Government Solution True
Hope is nature’s veil for hiding truth’s nakedness.
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Hide Hope Naked Nature True
The truthful man is usually a liar.
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Lying Man One Liner Truth
Perhaps my dynamite plants will put an end to war sooner than your [pacifist] congresses. On the day two army corps can annihilate each other in one second all civilized nations will recoil from war in horror.
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Army Civilization Dynamite End Horror Nation Plant War
If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good, I am satisfied.
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Goodness Ideas Myself Satisfaction
For me writing biographies is impossible, unless they are brief and concise, and these are, I feel, the most eloquent.
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Brief Feeling Myself Writing
I have not the slightest pretension to call my verses poetry; I write now and then for no other purpose than to relieve depression or to improve my English.
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Call Depression Improvement Myself Poetry Purpose Writing
It is not sufficient to be worthy of respect in order to be respected.
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Order Respect Worth
Good wishes alone will not ensure peace.
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Alone Goodness Peace

I have not the slightest pretension to call my verses poetry; I write now and then for no other purpose than to relieve depression or to improve my English.

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