Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour quotes
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“What scoundrels we would be if we did for ourselves what we are ready to do for Italy.”
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“The man who trusts men will make fewer mistakes that he who distrusts them.”
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“I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I tell them the truth and they never believe me.”
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“Lotteries, a tax upon imbeciles.”
-- Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour -
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“In politics nothing is so absurd as rancor.”
-- Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour -
“In a word, the free Church in a free State has been the programme which led me to my first efforts, and which I continue to regard as just and true, reasonable and practical, after the studies of thirty years.”
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“European lotteries are the tax on fools.”
-- Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour
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Source : What to Listen for in Music (1939) ch. 2
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“Nothing in life was as precious as this woman. It never would be. I’d found my happiness.”
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“Do not be fooled by your youthful appearance for very soon it would be taken away from you.”
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