Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour

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The man who trusts men will make fewer mistakes that he who distrusts them.
- Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour
Collection: Mistake
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What scoundrels we would be if we did for ourselves what we are ready to do for Italy.
- Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour
Collection: Patriotism
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In politics nothing is so absurd as rancor.
- Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour
Collection: Politics
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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.
- Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour
Collection: Years
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European lotteries are the tax on fools.
- Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour
Collection: Gambling