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> [Courage, of all national qualities, is the most precarious; because it is exerted only at intervals, and by a few in every nation; whereas industry, knowledge, civility, may be of constant and universal use, and for several ages, may become…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-hume/courage-of-all-national-qualities-is-the-most-precarious-because-it/)

[David Hume](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-hume/)

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> [After all, science is essentially international, and it is only through lack of the historical sense that national qualities have been attributed to it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marie-curie/after-all-science-is-essentially-international-and-it-is-only-through/)

[Marie Curie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marie-curie/)

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