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People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours.
The inference is false, a gift confers no rights. -- Nietzsche...
People who have no faith in themselves seldom have faith in others.
People who have no faults are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.
People who have nothing to say often do and take a good long time doing it.
People who have something to say, often do not....
People who have the power to make things happen don't do the things that people do, so they don't know what needs to happen.
-- Russell Bake...
People who have what they want are very fond of telling people who haven't what they want that they really don't want it.
-- Odgen Nash (1902-1971)...
People who insist on sticking with the truth can be terribly boring and just downright insulting.
People who insult others are jerks. -- Grammar rules for the unenlightened
People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau, "Emile, ou de l'education", 1762...
People who like this sort of thing will find this the sort of thing they like.
-- Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) -- in G. W. E. Russell Collections and Recollections (1898) ch....

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