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The French and the British are such good enemies that they can't resist being friends.
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Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
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The point of living and of being an optimist is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come.
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At the age of four with paper hats and wooden swords we're all Generals. Only some of us never grow out of it.
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I have three daughters and I find as a result I played King Lear almost without rehearsal.
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If the world should blow itself up, the last audible voice would be that of an expert saying it can't be done.
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The truth is really an ambition which is beyond us.
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I'm convinced there's a small room in the attic of the Foreign Office where future diplomats are taught to stammer.
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The truth is an ambition which is beyond us.
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It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.
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I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.
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Corruption is nature's way of restoring our faith in democracy.
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A diplomat these days is nothing, but a head waiter who is allowed to sit down occasionally.
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Her virtue was that she said what she thought, her vice that what she thought didn't amount to much.