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Policemen are seldom tried for their crimes, or indeed, held responsible for what they do, which disturbs the peace and causes distress among the orderly.

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TV news is not very instructive.
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The United States was founded by the brightest people in the country – and we haven’t seen them since.
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The behaviour of President Bush on 11 September certainly gives rise to not unnatural suspicions.
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I can understand companionship.
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A friend was surprised to hear me say that there was not one moment of my past that I would like to relive.
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I’m all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults.
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I’ve yet to read a memoir by anyone I’ve known at all well that came anywhere near to the truth.
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What is in question is a kind of book reviewing which seems to be more and more popular: the loose putting down of opinions as though they were facts, and the treating of facts as though they were opinions.
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I could be a lot happier. I could be the senator from Aerospace taking bribes, and be quite happy.
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As for civil liberties, any one who is not vigilant may one day find himself living, if not in a police state, at least in a police city.
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The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who do well what is not worth doing at all.
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When I say ‘president,’ I still mean Roosevelt – wisely, I think.
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History is nothing but gossip about the past, with the hope that it might be true.
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A narcissist is someone better looking than you are.
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I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
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In classical times, it was a capital offense to speculate upon the hour of a king’s death or upon the identity of his successor.
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