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The great gift of conversation lies less in displaying it ourselves than in drawing it out of others. He who leaves your company pleased with himself and his own cleverness is perfectly well pleased with you. ↗

— Jean de la Bruyere

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The bed is now as public as the dinner table and governed by the same rules of formal confrontation. ↗

— Angela Carter

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Daily life is governed by an economic system in which the production and consumption of insults tends to balance out. ↗

— Raoul Vaneigem

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Which would you rather be if you had the choice--divinely beautiful or dazzlingly clever or angelically good? ↗

— L.M. Montgomery

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Voters will decide how they want to be governed. ↗

— Evangelos Venizelos

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Specifically, the reservation of sovereignty to the people of the states in matters not governed by federal law is constitutionally defined and permanently enshrined in the 10th Amendment. ↗

— Dick Thornburgh

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Two hundred years ago, our Founding Fathers gave us a democracy. It was based upon the simple, yet noble, idea that government derives its validity from the consent of the governed. ↗

— Paul Tsongas

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The world is governed more by appearance than realities so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it. ↗

— Daniel Webster

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Honesty is the best policy; but he who is governed by that maxim is not an honest man. ↗

— Richard Whately

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Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness. ↗

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

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