He was fond of the tavern, and felt comfortable only among coarse language, military gallantries, easy beauties, and easy conquests.

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Never was keener anguish lavished upon a thing more charming or more delicate.

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No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come.

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Every man is a book in which God himself writes.

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Don't educate your children to be rich. Educate them to be happy, so they know the value of things, not the price.

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Many great actions are committed in small struggles.

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If I speak, I am condemned. If I stay silent, I am damned!

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Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.

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Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

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The peculiar property of truth is never to commit excesses. What need has it of exaggeration?

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