Illusion is the first of all pleasures.
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I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise.
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy.
Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock.
This is the devilish thing about foreign affairs: they are foreign and will not always conform to our whim.
A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not.
No opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.