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Your aspirations are your possibilities.
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It is, indeed, at home that every man must be known by those who would make a just estimate either of his…
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The violence of war admits no distinction; the lance, that is lifted at guilt and power, will sometimes fall on innocence and…
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Much may be made of a Scotchman, if he be caught young.
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To a people warlike and indigent, an incursion into a rich country is never hurtful.
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The applause of a single human being is of great consequence.
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Health is certainly more valuable than money, because it is by health that money is procured.
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The certainty that life cannot be long, and the probability that it will be much shorter than nature allows, ought to awaken…
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Gratitude is a fruit of great cultivation; you do not find it among gross people.
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Politics are now nothing more than means of rising in the world.
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The true genius is a mind of large general powers, accidentally determined to some particular direction.
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He who expects much will be often disappointed; yet disappointment seldom cures us of expectation, or has any other effect than that…
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What generally happens in this county is that our politicians don't serve us well because they don't tell the truth, and they…
— Peter Garrett
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What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
— Benjamin Disraeli
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It generally happens that assurance keeps an even pace with ability.
— Samuel Johnson
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I had the story, bit by bit, from various people, and, as generally happens in such cases, each time it was a…
— Edith Wharton
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And so, as generally happens, those who have most give least, and those with less somehow make shrift to share.
— Geraldine Brooks
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Criticizing people, winding them up, making idiots of them or fooling them doesn't make people with autism laugh. What makes us smile…
— Naoki Higashida
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What we anticipate seldom occurs, what we least expected generally happens.
— Benjamin Disraeli
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