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The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.

Best Government Benevolent Tyranny
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To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered.

Succeed World Stupid Well-mannered
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The world embarrasses me, and I cannot dream that this watch exists and has no watchmaker.
World Embarrasses Dream Watch
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The public is a ferocious beast; one must either chain it or flee from it.

Public Ferocious Beast Chain
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The safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.

Safest Course Conscience Secret
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It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one.
Better Risk Guilty Man
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If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.
God Created Own.image Reciprocated
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I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O Lord make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it.

Never Prayer God Enemies
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In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another.

General Government Consist Money
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Use, do not abuse... neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy.

Use Abuse Abstinence Excess
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To hold a pen is to be at war.
Pen Hold War
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It is said that the present is pregnant with the future.

Said Present Pregnant Future
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Perfection is attained by slow degrees; it requires the hand of time.
Perfection Attained Slow Degrees
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He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.

Ignorant Answers Question
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We cannot always oblige; but we can always speak obligingly.

Always Oblige Speak
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Everything's fine today, that is our illusion,
Fine Today Illusion
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Let us read and let us dance - two amusements that will never do any harm to the world.

Read Dance Amusements Harm
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One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.

Words Great Hide Thoughts
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All the reasonings of men are not worth one sentiment of women.
Reasoning Men Worth Sentiment
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All styles are good except the tiresome kind.

Styles Good Tiresome Kind
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Paradise was made for tender hearts; hell, for loveless hearts.
Paradise Made Tender Heart
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Every one goes astray, but the least imprudent are they who repent the soonest.

One Astray Imprudent Repent
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Fear follows crime and is its punishment.

Fear Crime Punishment
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He shines in the second rank, who is eclipsed in the first.

Shrine Second Rank
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Fashion is so over the top.
Fashion Over Over-The-Top Top
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I don't devalue comedy as compared to drama. Not one bit.

Bit Comedy Compared Devalue
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I don't have a burning desire to be taken seriously as an actor. I don't have a master plan in that way.

Actor Burning BurningDesire Desire
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I don't think know if anything's going to translate anywhere. You're making a movie, you hope it's going to be funny, you can't think about how it's going to go over.

About Anything Anywhere Funny
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I don't think the public is dying to see me necessarily be funny all the time.

Dying Funny Me Necessarily
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I enjoy the work I do in comedies. It's a valid test of your creative abilities.

Ability Comedies Creative Enjoy
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I grew up wanting to make movies, and along the way I suddenly found that I had a career doing comedy.

Along Career Comedy Doing
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I have a lot of nervous energy. Work is my best way of channelling that into something productive unless I want to wind up assaulting the postman or gardener.

Best BestWay Energy Gardener
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I just watched Paul Michael Glaser. He was the reason I wanted to do the movie because as a kid I was such a big fan of his. I watched all the episodes and tried to get a feeling for what he was doing.

Because Big BigFan Doing
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I love New York. I was sad, depressed and incredibly moved by our fellow countrymen and what they've done. I wanted to give people a chance to see something funny, have a distraction.

Chance Countrymen Depressed Distraction
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I think most politicians could take a dodgeball in the face.

Could Face IThink Most
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I think people will be curious to see what I can do as a dramatic actor.

Actor Curious Dramatic ICan
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I would like to do more dramas when I find a good role that will allow me to politely upset people's expectations of me as a comic actor.

Actor Allow Comic Dramas
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I'm always willing to endure humiliation on behalf of my characters.

Always Behalf Characters Endure
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I'm not an expert on the Malaysian sense of humor.
Expert Humor Sense SenseOfHumor
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Clever tyrants are never punished.

Clever Tyrants Punished
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The ear is the avenue to the hear.

Ear Avenue Hear
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There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.

Truths Men Times
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Very learned women are to be found, in the same manner as female warriors; but they are seldom or ever inventors.

Women Learned Found Manner
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It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.

Right Dangerous Matters Authorities
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No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking.

Problem Withstand Assault Thinking
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History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes.

History Register Crimes Misfortunes
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In every author let us distinguish the man from his works.
Every Author Distingush Man
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It takes a wise man to discover a wise man.

Wise Man Discover
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The wise man does not grow old, but ripens.
Wise Man Goes Grow
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So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.

Falsehood Wise Man Trust
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