"Women wish to be loved without a why or a wherefore not because they are pretty, or good, or well-bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves."
-Henri Frederic Amiel
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"Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart.“
-Henri Frederic Amiel
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"Pure truth cannot be assimilated by the crowd it must be communicated by contagion."
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"Truth is not only violated by falsehood it may be equally outraged by silence."
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"Our Soviet espionage efforts had virtually never, or had very seldom, produced any worthwhile political or economic intelligence on the Soviet Union."
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