The best protection for the people is not necessarily to believe everything people tell them.
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There is a great deal of wishful thinking in such cases it is the easiest thing of all to deceive ones self.
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Every advantage in the past is judged in the light of the final issue.
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Small opportunities often presage great enterprises.
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One believes in what one wants to believe in.
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Success has a great tendency to conceal and throw a veil over the evil deeds of men.
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He who confers a favor should at once forget it, if he is not to show a sordid ungenerous spirit. To remind a man of a kindness conferred and to talk of it, is little different from reproach.
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Good fortune is the greatest of blessings, but good counsel comes next, and the lack of it destroys the other also.
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