The more a man dreams, the less he believes.
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Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking.
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Here, indeed, was his one really notable talent. He slept more than any other President, whether by day or by night. . . . Nero fiddled, but Coolidge only snored. . . . He had no ideas, and he was not a nuisance.
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All government, in its essence, is a conspiracy against the superior man.
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