"One can resist the invasion of an army but one cannot resist the invasion of ideas."
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"Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life."
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"People do not lack strength; they lack will."
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"Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart."
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"Emergencies have always been necessary to progress. It was darkness which produced the lamp. It was fog that produced the compass. It was hunger that drove us to exploration. And it took a depression to teach us the real value of a job."
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"I dislike wealth and prosperity, especially that of other men."
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"When a woman is talking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes."
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"Go to sleep in peace. God is awake."
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"It is not so easy to keep silent when the silence is a lie."
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"Never laugh at those who suffer; suffer sometimes those who laugh."
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"I advance in life, I grow more simple, and I become more and more patriotic for humanity."
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"Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time."
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"The great acts of love are done by those who are habitually performing small acts of kindness."
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"God has made the cat to give man the pleasure of caressing the tiger."
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"He loved books; books are cold but safe friends."
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"Civil war.... What did the words mean? Was there any such thing as "foreign war"? Was not all warfare between men warfare between brothers?"
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"The sewer is the conscience of the city."
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"What's our baggage? Only vows, Happiness, and all our care, And the flower that sweetly shows Nestling lightly in your hair."
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"Another story must begin!"
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"Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure."
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