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• That a few simple men should in one generation have invented so powerful and appealing a personality, so lofty ethic, and so…
• Which is now a more hopeful statement than Swift intended it to be.
• The time when you need to do something is when no one else is willing to do it, when people are saying…
• Hunting is now to most of us a game, whose relish seems based upon some mystic remembrance, in the blood, of ancient…
• When liberty destroys order the hunger for order will destroy liberty.
• To give life a meaning, one must have a purpose larger than self.
• History is so indifferently rich, that a case for almost any conclusion from it can be made by a selection of instances.
• Drunkenness was in good repute in England till "Bloody Mary" frowned upon it; it remained popular in Germany. The French drank more…

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