"England expects every man to do his duty"
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"Must's a schoolroom in the month of may"
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"It is not only our right as members of the global human family to protest when our brothers and sisters are being treated brutally, but it is also our duty to do whatever we can to hep them."
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"I fell asleep and dreamed that life was only Happiness. I woke and discovered that life was Duty. I did my Duty and discovered that life was Happiness."
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"Duty is what no-one else will do at the moment."
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"I shall not do more than I can, and I shall do all I can to save the government, which is my sworn duty as well as my personal inclination. I shall do nothing in malice. What I deal with is too vast for malicious dealing."
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"The sense of obligation to continue is present in all of us. A duty to strive is the duty of us all. I felt a call to that duty."
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"I hope it will not be irreverent in me to say, that if it be probable that God would reveal his will to others, on a point so connected with my duty, it might be supposed he would reveal it directly to me"
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"The worst of doing one's duty was that it apparently unfitted one for doing anything else."
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"The care of the public health is the first duty of the statesman."
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"There is only one duty; that is to be happy."
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"All the time that he can spare from the adornment of his person, he devotes to the neglect of his duties."
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"A speculative despair is unpardonable where it our duty to act."
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"Duty grows everywhere--like children, like grass."
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"It is our first duty to serve society."
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"Learn to say No—and to be rude about it when necessary. Otherwise you will not have time to carry out your duty, or to do your own work, and certainly no time for love and happiness. The termites will nibble away your life and leave none of it for you."
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"Among the smaller duties of life I hardly know any one more important than that of not praising where praise is not due."
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"Performance of duty and observance of morality are convertible terms."
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"What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying."
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"The judge's duty is to inquire about the time, as well as the facts."
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