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Mario Puzo Inspirational Quotes (52)

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Santino, never let anyone outside the family know what you are thinking. Never let them know what you have under your fingernails. I think your brain is going soft from all that comedy you play with that young girl. Stop it and pay attention to business. Now get out of my sight.
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A friend should always underestimate your virtues and an enemy overestimate your faults
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All gamblers are paranoid, though they call it superstition.
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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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Any man can turn traitor.
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Finance is a gun. Politics is knowing when to pull the trigger.
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Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.
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I find the only thing that really stands up, better than gambling, better than booze, better than women, is reading.
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Italians have a little joke, that the world is so hard a man must have two fathers to look after him, and that's why they have godfathers.
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It can be argued that man's instinct to gamble is the only reason he is still not a monkey up in the trees.
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Michael: Barzini will set me up through somebody close... that, supposedly, I won't suspect. Hagen: Somebody like me. Michael: You're Irish, they won't trust you. Hagen: I'm German-American. Michael: To them that's Irish.
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Revenge is a dish that tastes best when served cold.
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Falling in love is great but being in love is a disaster
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He smelled the garden, the yellow shield of light smote his eyes, and he whispered, Life is so beautiful. ... Yes, he thought, if I can die saying, Life is so beautiful, then nothing else is important.
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The strength of a family, like the strength of an army, lies in its loyalty to each other.
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I don't trust society to protect us, I have no intention of placing my fate in the hands of men whose only qualification is that they managed to con a block of people to vote for them.
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In Sicily, women are more dangerous than shotguns.
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We don't know if capital punishment is a deterrent, but we know that men we execute will not murder again.
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I will make you an offer you cannot refuse
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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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Our own death wish is our only real tragedy.
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I like to drink wine more than I used to. Anyway, I'm drinking more.
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I spent my whole life trying not to be careless. Women and children can afford to be careless, but not men.
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Michael could never remember his father ever having uttered a word about death, as if the Don respected death too much to philosophize about it.
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