Society prepares the crime, the criminal commits it.

Henry Thomas Buckle
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  1. Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.
  2. You can tell the lowest class by their habit of always talking about persons; the next, by the fact that their habit is always to converse about things; the highest, by their preference for the discussion of ideas.
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