"I am sure care's an enemy to life."
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"Because I cannot flatter and look fair, Smile in men's faces, smooth, deceive, and cog, Duck with French nods and apish courtesy, I must be held a rancorous enemy."
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"To some kind of men their graces serve them but as enemies."
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"He hath disgrac'd me and hind'red me half a million; laugh'd at my losses, mock'd at my gains, scorned my nation, thwarted my bargains, cooled my friends, heated my enemies. And what's his reason? I am a Jew."
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"Light and lust are deadly enemies."
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"Our enemies are our outward consciences."
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"Love all, trust a few, Do wrong to none: be able for thine enemy Rather in power than use; and keep thy friend Under thy own life's key: be check'd for silence, But never tax'd for speech."
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"Friendly counsel cuts off many foes."
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"There is required for the composition of a great commander not only massive common sense and reasoning power, not only imagination, but also an element of legerdemain, an original and sinister touch, which leaves the enemy puzzled as well as beaten."
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"No matter how enmeshed a commander becomes in the elaboration of his own thoughts, it is sometimes necessary to take the enemy into account."
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"beware of your most implacable enemy-yourself."
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"There are souls, he thought, whose umbilicus has never been cut. They never got weaned from the universe. They do not understand death as an enemy; they look forward to rotting and turning into humus."
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"When the ending finally comes to me, I often have to backtrack and make the beginning point towards that ending. Other times, I know exactly what the ending will be before I begin, like with the story "A Brief Encounter With the Enemy." It was all about the ending - that's what motivated me."
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"Our constitutional liberties shall not be sacrificed in our search for greater security, for that is what our enemies and all enemies of freedom and democracy hope to achieve."
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"We share a common enemy, but does that make us friends?"
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"If someone offer you an opportunity to get closer to your enemy, you always take it."
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"You're more than Dauntless," he says in a low voice. "But if you want to be just like them, hurling yourself into ridiculous situations for no reason and retaliating against your enemies without any regard for what's ethical, go right ahead. I thought you were better than that, but maybe I was wrong."
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"It's a total failure of the Western imagination that the only enemy they can see is Adolph Hitler."
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"Friend is sometimes a word devoid of meaning; enemy, never."
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"Could I be assured that America would remain virtuous, I would venture to defy the utmost Efforts of Enemies to subjugate her."
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