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• Suave molecules of Mocha stir up your blood, without causing excess heat; the organ of thought receives from it a feeling of…
• Espresso is to Italy, what champagne is to France.
• Merit, however inconsiderable, should be sought for and rewarded. Methods are the master of masters.
• Speech has been given to man to disguise his thoughts.
• In order to avoid being called a flirt, she always yielded easily.
• It is not an event; it is a piece of news.
• War is much too serious a thing to be left to military men.
• In a novel, the author gives the leading character intelligence and distinction. Fate goes to less trouble: mediocrities play a part in…
• There are many people who have the gift, or failing, of never understanding themselves. I have been unlucky enough, or perhaps fortunate…
• Mistrust first impulses; they are nearly always good.
• The art of statesmanship is to foresee the inevitable and to expedite its occurrence.
• To succeed in the world, it is much more necessary to possess the penetration to discern who is a fool, than to…

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