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Compromise is not such ignoble and deplorable a thing as we generally think. It is rather an indispensable factor in the political strategy. Any nation that rises against the oppressors is bound to fail in the beginning and to gain partial reforms during the medieval period of its struggle through compromises.
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It is a deplorable thing to see all men deliberating on means alone, and not on the end.
Pensees (1669) -
Of all ruins, that of a noble mind is the most deplorable.
His Last Bow (1917) -
Sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life.
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The paradoxes of today are the prejudices of tomorrow, since the most benighted and the most deplorable prejudices have had their moment of novelty when fashion lent them its fragile grace.
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