. . . all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill … - Moliere

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A number of people still think of the United States as being overwhelmingly English, Protestant, and white. This erroneous idea influences their whole outlook.

Moliere

. . . all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill in dancing.

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I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores.

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You never see the old austerity That was the essence of civility; Young people hereabouts, unbridled, now Just want.

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Reason is not what decides love.

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When you model yourself on people, you should try to resemble their good sides.

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What! Would you make no distinction between hypocrisy and devotion? Would you give them the same names, and respect the mask as you do the face? Would you equate artifice and sincerity? Confound appearance with truth? Regard the phantom as the very person? Value counterfeit as cash?

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The Oscars are a really strange concept to me, that films and acting can be competing against each other. We're not running the same race. It's like we're all doing different sports in fact.

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