“ The imbecility of men is always inviting the impudence of power. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
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“ The rest, called literature, is a dossier of human imbecility for the guidance of future professors. ”
- Tristan Tzara- Copy
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“ Every man naturally persuades himself that he can keep his resolutions, nor is he convinced of his imbecility but by length of time and frequency of experiment. ”
- Samuel Johnson- Copy
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“ You may be sure that the Americans will commit all the stupidities they can think of, plus some that are beyond imagination. ”
- Charles de Gaulle- Copy
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“ The key to the age may be this, or that, or the other, as the young orators describe; the key to all ages is — Imbecility; imbecility in the vast majority of men, at all times, and, even in heroes, in all but certain eminent moments; victims of gravity, custom, and fear. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
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