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A country grows in history not only because of the heroism of its troops on the field of battle, it grows also when it turns to justice and to right for the conservation of its interests.
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A decadent civilization compromises with its disease, cherishes the virus infecting it, loses its self-respect.
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A few more moons, a few more winters, and not one of all the mighty hosts that once filled this broad land or that now roam in fragmentary bands through these vast solitudes will remain to weep over the tombs of a people once as powerful and as hopeful as your own. But why should we repine? Why should I murmur at the fate of my people? Tribes are made up of individuals and are no better than they. Men come and go like the waves of the sea. A tear, a tamanamus, a dirge, and they are gone from our
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A gloomy guest fits not a wedding feast.
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A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.
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A good ad should be like a good sermon: It must not only comfort the afflicted, it also must afflict the comfortable.
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A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you, and were helped by you, will remember you when forget-me-nots are withered. Carve your name on hearts, and not on marble
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A good man often appears gauche simply because he does not take advantage of the myriad mean little chances of making himself look stylish. Preferring truth to form, he is not constantly at work upon the façade of his appearance.
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A government must not waiver once it has chosen it's course. It must not look to the left or right but go forward.
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A hallucination is a fact, not an error; what is erroneous is a judgment based upon it.
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A leader who doesn't hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.
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A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason.
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A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.
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A man who does not think and plan long ahead will find trouble right at his door.
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A minority is powerless while it conforms to the majority; it is not even a minority then; but it is irresistible when it clogs by its whole weight.
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A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation.
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A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.
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