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The perfection preached in the gospels never yet built an empire. Every man of action has a strong dose of egotism, pride, hardness, and cunning.

Charles de Gaulle

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Belgium is a country invented by the British to annoy the French.
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Annoy Country Creation Invention
I am not bad, thank you. But don’t worry, one of these days I shall certainly die.
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Death Myself Thankful
He who laughs last didn’t get the joke.
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Dumb Himself Joke Laughter
Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own.
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Action Character Crisis Face Himself Responsibility
France has no friends, only interests.
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Friendship Interest Selfish
All my life I have had a certain idea of France.
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Ideas Life Myself
Men can have friends, statesmen cannot.
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Hearing Mass is the ceremony I most favor during my travels. Church is the only place where someone speaks to me and I do not have to answer back.
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Favor Myself Talk Travel
The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.
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Better Love Man Myself
No policy is worth anything outside of reality.
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Feeling Policy Reality Side Worth
In the tumult of men and events, solitude was my temptation; now it is my friend. What other satisfaction can be sought once you have confronted History?
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History Man Myself Satisfaction Solitude Temptation Yourself
Difficulty attracts the man of character because it is in embracing it that he realizes himself.
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Attraction Difficult Embrace Himself Realization
In politics it is necessary either to betray one’s country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate.
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Betrayal Country Election Necessary Politics
Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word.
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Believe Himself Politics Quite Word
These people really aim very badly.
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Bad Goal People
Don’t ask me who’s influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he’s digested, and I’ve been reading all my life.
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Digestion Influence Life Myself Reading

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