- William Pitt the elder
(11/15/1708 – 05/11/1778)
English statesman
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"Children are overwhelming, supercilious, passionate, envious, inquisitive, egotistical, idle, fickle, timid, intemperate, liars and dissemblers; they laugh and weep easily, are excessive in their joys and sorrows, and that about the most trifling subjects; they bear no pain, but like to inflict it on others; already they are men."
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"The atrocious crime of being a young man . . . I shall neither attempt to palliate nor deny."
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"Charm is the quality in others that makes us more satisfied with ourselves."
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"I am sitting in the smallest room of my house. I have your review before me. In a moment, it will be behind me."
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| "The mortality of all inanimate things is terrible to me, but that of books most of all." |  |
"The ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee. And I pay more for that ability than for any other under the sun."
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"Get plenty article that is pure foolishness.
You have a guy come talk to you for a whole week, and him go an' write something
for please the Devil."
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"An editor should have a pimp for a brother so he has someone to look up to."
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"Time is an illusion, lunchtime doubly so."
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| "They said I was the fighter who got knocked down the most, but I also got up the most." |  |
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