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• We are all familiar with the argument: Make war dreadful enough, and there will be no war. And we none of us…
• Justice is a machine which, when someone has once given it the starting push, rolls on of itself.
• I am still under the impression that there is nothing alive quite so beautiful as a thoroughbred horse.
• We are not living in a private world of our own. Everything we say and do and think has its effect on…
• It`s always worth while before you do anything to consider whether it`s going to hurt another person more than is absolutely necessary.
• Memory heaps dead leaves on corpse-like deeds, from under which they do but vaguely offend the sense.
• The value of a sentiment is the amount of sacrifice you are prepared to make for it.
• Headlines twice the size of the events.
• It's not life that counts but the fortitude you bring into it.
• Once admit that we have the right to inflict unnecessary suffering and you destroy the very basis of human society.
• By the cigars they smoke, and the composers they love, ye shall know the texture of men's souls.
• From behind a wooden crate we saw a long black-muzzled nose poking round at us. We took him out-soft, wobbly, tearful; set…

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