Assassination has never changed the history of the world.

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An author who speaks about their own books is almost as bad as a mother who speaks about her own children.

There is no education like adversity.

The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation.

Like all great travellers I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.

Travel and change of place impart new vigor to the mind.

Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.

Everything in the world is about sex, except sex. Sex is about power.

People are people and sometimes we change our minds.