There is no diplomacy like candor. - E. V. Lucas

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Generalization is flawed thinking only when applied to individuals. It is the most accurate way to describe the mass, the Wad. And yours is a democracy, a dictatorship of the Wad.

E. V. Lucas

There is no diplomacy like candor.

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A horse's eye disquiets me: it has an expression of alarm that may at any moment be translated into action.

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In betting on races, there are two elements that are never lacking - hope as hope, and an incomplete recollection of the past.

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The truth is the only thing worth having, and, in a civilized life, like ours, where so many risks are removed, facing it is almost the only courageous thing left to do.

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What kind of life a dog. . . acquires. I have sometimes tried to imagine by kneeling or lying full length on the ground and looking up. The world then becomes strangely incomplete; one sees little but legs.

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People in hotels strike no roots. The French phrase for chronic hotel guests even says so; they are called dwellers sur la branche.

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