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The best servants of the people, like the best valets, must whisper unpleasant truths in the master's ear. It is the court fool, not the foolish courtier, whom the king can least afford to lose.
Walter Lippmann
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Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt, not swallowed.


Josh Billings
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I think it's interesting that 'cologne' rhymes with 'alone.'


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If I splurge on anything, it's cologne. I love smelling good.


Zac Efron
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Between 1950 and 1951, I worked as a temporary employee in the Cologne Bureau of Statistics. From summer 1951 on, I have lived as a freelance writer with a fixed postal address in Cologne but with a continually shifting place of work.
Heinrich Boll
My proposal to re-establish diplomatic relations - not necessarily friendly relations, but diplomatic relations - is a sensible, simple, and straightforward approach that will finally get us off dead center.
Cyrus Vance
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We don't really want to work for a corporation; however, we do aspire to one day make a barbecue sauce that doubles as a cologne, and we would like to promote that ourselves. We would like to create a cologne barbecue sauce benchmark of success.
Charles Lincoln Neal
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The greatest enemy of any one of our truths may be the rest of our truths.


William James
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Nothing is more unpleasant than a virtuous person with a mean mind.


Walter Bagehot
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The paparazzi terrify and torment people and endanger people and it's really unpleasant.


Barbara Broccoli
There is a direct connection that cannot be severed between the diplomatic process and growth and prosperity.
Isaac Herzog
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I don't do pride. It seems to me to be a very unpleasant thing.


Ruth Rendell
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The sense of smell explores; deleterious substances almost always have an unpleasant smell.


Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
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Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.


Jessamyn West
All significant truths are private truths. As they become public they cease to become truths; they become facts, or at best, part of the public character; or at worst, catchwords.
T. S. Eliot
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I would like to be George Clooney diplomatic. I just don't have the wherewithal yet or the inner serenity.
Shia LaBeouf
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I was always frightened by taverns. They just seemed like very unpleasant places to go.


Matt Groening
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There are also two kinds of truths: truth of reasoning and truths of fact. Truths of reasoning are necessary and their opposite is impossible; those of fact are contingent and their opposite is possible.
Gottfried Leibniz
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The most dangerous untruths are truths slightly distorted.


Georg C. Lichtenberg
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I don't like movies about serial killers, necessarily; it's too real and unpleasant for me.


Sam Raimi
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