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The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop. Patrick Jake 'P.J.' O'Rourke		Wednesday Sep 23, 2026
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War is much too serious a thing to be left to military men. Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord

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	Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord
	(1754-1838) Napoleons grand chamberlain, Louis XVIIIs foreign affairs minister.

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There are many people who have the gift, or failing, of never understanding themselves. I have been unlucky enough, or perhaps fortunate enough to have received the opposite gift.

Show me another pleasure like dinner which comes every day and lasts an hour.

If we go on explaining we shall cease to understand one another.

I am more afraid of an army of 100 sheep led by a lion than an army of 100 lions led by a sheep.

War is much too serious a thing to be left to military men.

Speech was given to man to disguise his thoughts.