"There are persons whose only merit consists in saying and doing stupid things at the right time, and who ruin all if they change their manners."
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"Thirteen sovereignties pulling against each other and all tugging at the federal head, will soon bring ruin on the whole."
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"Your scheme must be the framework of the universe; all other schemes will soon be ruins."
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"Moral supremacy is the only one that leaves monuments, and not ruins, behind it."
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"You can still function as a living ruin."
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"I feel all those human beings to be pernicious who can no longer oppose what they love: they thereby ruin the best things and people."
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"As far as Germany extends it ruins culture."
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"Wherever Germany extends her sway, she ruins culture."
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"The apparent ease with which children learn is their ruin."
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"It just goes to show, if you try to ruin someone's life, it only gets better. You just don't get to be a part of it."
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"That which seems to be wealth may in verity be only the gilded index of far reaching ruin"
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"Those who give the first shock to a state are the first overwhelmed in its ruin; the fruits of public commotion are seldom enjoyed by him who was the first mover; he only beats the water for another's net."
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