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• Perseverance - a lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success. — Ambrose Bierce
• Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily. — Napoleon Bonaparte
• To lose one's health renders science null, are inglorious, strength unavailing, wealth useless, and eloquence powerless. — Herophilos
• An inglorious peace is better than a dishonorable war. — Mark Twain
• There’s this thing called progress. But it doesn’t progress. It doesn’t go anywhere. Because as progress progresses the world can slip away.… — Graham Swift
• Your little army, derided for its want of arms, derided for its lack of all the essential material of war, has met… — Jefferson Davis
• The unweary, unostentatious, and inglorious crusade of England against slavery may probably be regarded as among the three or four perfectly virtuous… — William Edward Hartpole Lecky
• In a general view, there are few conquests that repay the charge of making them, and mankind are pretty well convinced that… — Thomas Paine
• Some village Hampden, that with dauntless breast The little tyrant of his fields withstood, Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest, Some… — Thomas Gray
• A relatively small and eternally quarrelsome country in Western Europe, fountainhead of rationalist political manias, militarily impotent, historically inglorious during the past… — William F. Buckley, Jr.
• If we must die, let it not be like hogs Hunted and penned in an inglorious spot, If we must die, O… — Claude McKay
• There are no mute, inglorious Miltons, save in the hallucinations of poets. The one sound test of a Milton is that he… — H. L. Mencken

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