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| The graveyards are full of indispensable men. | Charles De Gaulle | 1890-1970, French President during World War II |
| In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant. | Charles De Gaulle | 1890-1970, French President during World War II |
| How can you govern a country with two hundred and forty six varieties of cheese? | Charles De Gaulle | 1890-1970, French President during World War II |
| No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independent. | Charles De Gaulle | 1890-1970, French President during World War II |
| I respect only those who resist me; but I cannot tolerate them. | Charles De Gaulle | 1890-1970, French President during World War II |
| Since a politician never believes what he says, he is surprised when others believe him. | Charles De Gaulle | 1890-1970, French President during World War II |
| I have come to the conclusion that politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians. | Charles De Gaulle | 1890-1970, French President during World War II |
| Silence is the ultimate weapon of power. | Charles De Gaulle | 1890-1970, French President during World War II |
| In the tumult of men and events, solitude was my temptation; now it is my friend. What other satisfaction can be sought once you have confronted History? | Charles De Gaulle | 1890-1970, French President during World War II |
| Treaties are like roses and young girls -- they last while they last | Charles De Gaulle | 1890-1970, French President during World War II |
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| The sword is the axis of the world, and grandeur is indivisible. | Charles De Gaulle | 1890-1970, French President during World War II |
| We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death. | Charles De Montesquieu | 1689-1755, French Jurist, Political Philosopher |
| Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half. | Charles De Montesquieu | 1689-1755, French Jurist, Political Philosopher |
| There is no one, says another, whom fortune does not visit once in his life; but when she does not find him ready to receive her, she walks in at the door, and flies out at the window. | Charles De Montesquieu | 1689-1755, French Jurist, Political Philosopher |
| Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free. | Charles De Montesquieu | 1689-1755, French Jurist, Political Philosopher |
| Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favours for big ones. | Charles De Montesquieu | 1689-1755, French Jurist, Political Philosopher |
| If triangles made a god, they would give him three sides. | Charles De Montesquieu | 1689-1755, French Jurist, Political Philosopher |
| We wish to be happier than other people; and this is difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are. | Charles De Montesquieu | 1689-1755, French Jurist, Political Philosopher |
| If one only wished to be happy, this could be easily accomplished; but we wish to be happier that other people, and this is always difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are. | Charles De Montesquieu | 1689-1755, French Jurist, Political Philosopher |
| False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared. | Charles De Montesquieu | 1689-1755, French Jurist, Political Philosopher |
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| Useless laws weaken the necessary laws. | Charles De Montesquieu | 1689-1755, French Jurist, Political Philosopher |
| There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason, but from passion. | Charles De Montesquieu | 1689-1755, French Jurist, Political Philosopher |
| The spirit of moderation should also be the spirit of the lawgiver. | Charles De Montesquieu | 1689-1755, French Jurist, Political Philosopher |
| The severity of the laws prevents their execution. | Charles De Montesquieu | 1689-1755, French Jurist, Political Philosopher |
| Political liberty is to be found only in moderate governments. | Charles De Montesquieu | 1689-1755, French Jurist, Political Philosopher |
| Liberty is the right to do what the law permits. | Charles De Montesquieu | 1689-1755, French Jurist, Political Philosopher |
| Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies. | Charles De Montesquieu | 1689-1755, French Jurist, Political Philosopher |
| I have always observed that to succeed in the world a person must seem simple, yet wise. | Charles De Montesquieu | 1689-1755, French Jurist, Political Philosopher |
| What orators lack in depth, they make up to you in length. | Charles De Montesquieu | 1689-1755, French Jurist, Political Philosopher |
| This is how I define talent; it is a gift that God has given us in secret, which we reveal without knowing it. | Charles De Montesquieu | 1689-1755, French Jurist, Political Philosopher |
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| Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed. | Charles De Montesquieu | 1689-1755, French Jurist, Political Philosopher |
| An now the silences come in a single lifetime, in a single year... when species die, leaving a silent space in the world song that can never be filled. | Charles Delint | |
| Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature . | Charles Dickens | 1812-1870, British Novelist |
| Bring in the bottled lightning, a clean tumbler, and a corkscrew. | Charles Dickens | 1812-1870, British Novelist |
| It was a good thing to have a couple of thousand people all rigid and frozen together, in the palm of one's hand. | Charles Dickens | 1812-1870, British Novelist |
| It is a pleasant thing to reflect upon, and furnishes a complete answer to those who contend for the gradual degeneration of the human species, that every baby born into the world is a finer one than the last. | Charles Dickens | 1812-1870, British Novelist |
| Here's the rule for bargains: ''Do other men, for they would do you.'' That's the true business precept. | Charles Dickens | 1812-1870, British Novelist |
| I am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there are, on the whole earth besides, so many intensified bores as in these United States. No man can form an adequate idea of the real meaning of the word, without coming here. | Charles Dickens | 1812-1870, British Novelist |
| I never see any difference in boys. I only know two sorts of boys. Mealy boys and beef-faced boys. | Charles Dickens | 1812-1870, British Novelist |
| Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress. | Charles Dickens | 1812-1870, British Novelist |
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| Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door. | Charles Dickens | 1812-1870, British Novelist |
| Cheerfulness and contentment are great beautifiers and are famous preservers of youthful looks. | Charles Dickens | 1812-1870, British Novelist |
| I feel an earnest and humble desire, and shall till I die, to increase the stock of harmless cheerfulness. | Charles Dickens | 1812-1870, British Novelist |
| I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time... | Charles Dickens | 1812-1870, British Novelist |
| The whole difference between construction and creation is this; that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists. | Charles Dickens | 1812-1870, British Novelist |
| It opens the lungs, washes the countenance, exercises the eyes, and softens down the temper; so cry away. | Charles Dickens | 1812-1870, British Novelist |
| He would make a lovely corpse. | Charles Dickens | 1812-1870, British Novelist |
| Credit is a system whereby a person who can not pay gets another person who can not pay to guarantee that he can pay. | Charles Dickens | 1812-1870, British Novelist |
| Great men are seldom over-scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire. | Charles Dickens | 1812-1870, British Novelist |
| There are strings in the human heart that had better not be vibrated. | Charles Dickens | 1812-1870, British Novelist |
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