“Accidents don't happen to people who take accidents as a personal insult.”
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Yes, he thought, if I can die saying, "Life is so beautiful," then nothing else is important.”
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“Many young men started down a false path to their true destiny. Time and fortune usually set them aright.”
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“Keep your friends close and your enemies closer.”
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“there was no greater natural advantage in life than having an enemy overestimate your faults, unless it was to have a friend underestimate your virtues.”
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“Why should I be afraid now? Strange men have come to kill me ever since I was twelve years old.”
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“Lawyers can steal more money with a briefcase than a thousand men with guns and masks."
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“We are all honorable men here, we do not have to give each other assurances as if we were lawyers.”
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“He had long ago learned that society imposes insults that must be borne, comforted by the knowledge that in this world there comes a time when the most humble of men, if he keeps his eyes open, can take his revenge on the most powerful. It was this knowledge that prevented the Don from losing the humility all his friends admired in him.”
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“It was a lie but he believed in telling lies to people. Truth telling and medicine just didn't go together except in dire emergencies, if then.”
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“The other Dons in the room applauded and rose to shake hands with everybody in sight and to congratulate Don Corleone and Don Tattaglia on their new friendship. It was not perhaps the warmest friendship in the world, they would not send each other Christmas gift greetings, but they would not murder each other. That was friendship enough in this world, all that was needed.”
― Mario Puzo, The Godfather
Collected by Nimesh
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