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“People always kill Caesar. Don't trust anyone.”
“It's people with obsessions who do the real harm in the world.”
“But what do you say if you're asked a direct question and you can't tell the truth and you can't tell a lie?' 'You say how very interesting and change the subject.”
“But people as a rule believe only what they want to believe, and if you tell them anything else they'll call you a trouble-maker and get rid of you and never give you your job back, even if what yo...”
“Silly,' he said with mock serenity, 'isn't a word you should ever apply to people. They may be totally stupid, in fact, but if you call them silly you've lost their vote.”
“If ever you get invited into someone's home,' my father said (as he had been invited five or six times that morning), 'you go into the sitting-room and you say, Oh, what an attractive room!" even i...”
