The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.
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Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.
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No man ever quite believes in any other man.
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A man always remembers his first love with special tenderness, but after that he begins to bunch them.
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