"The truth is often one's best shield."
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"Silence is my weapon, silence is my shield."
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"When we were only acquaintances, you let me be myself, but now you're always protecting me... I won't be protected. I will choose for myself what is ladylike and right. To shield me is an insult. Can't I be trusted to face the truth but I must get it second-hand through you? A woman's place!"
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"Such power I gave the people as might do, Abridged not what they had, now lavished new, Those that were great in wealth and high in place My counsel likewise kept from all disgrace. Before them both I held my shield of might, And let not either touch the other's right."
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"I thought that culture and education are the shield. An educated person cannot do certain things and, and be educated, you cannot, and there they were, killing children day after day."
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"Every organism requires an environment of friends, partly to shield it from violent changes, and partly to supply it with its wants."
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"How else could he go on, except with merciful incomprehension held before him like a shield? How could anyone?"
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"A fearless woman who knows that her purity is her best shield can never be dishonoured."
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"Non-violence should never be used as a shield for cowardice. It is a weapon for the brave."
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"God is the shield of the nonviolent."
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"What is necessary for the pubic realm is to shield it from the private interests which have intruded upon it in the most brutal and aggressive form."
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"Cover your selfe with your shield, and care not for cryes."
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"Nothing was easier to shatter than the fragile shield of an idealist."
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