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Those who know how to win are much more numerous than those who know how to make proper use of their victories.
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From this I conclude that the best education for the situations of actual life consists of the experience we acquire from the…
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If history is deprived of the Truth, we are left with nothing but an idle, unprofitable tale.
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The particular aspect of history which both attracts and benefits its readers is the examination of causes and the capacity, which is…
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Since the masses of the people are inconstant, full of unruly desires, passionate, and reckless of consequences, they must be filled with…
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Monarchy degenerates into tyranny, aristocracy into oligarchy, and democracy into savage violence and chaos.
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For peace, with justice and honor, is the fairest and most profitable of possessions, but with disgrace and shameful cowardice, it is…
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In our own time the whole of Greece has been subject to a low birth rate and a general decrease of the…
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Sir, I do not call a gamester a dishonest man; but I call him an unsociable man, an unprofitable man. Gaming is…
— Samuel Johnson
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He has honor if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient, unprofitable, or dangerous to do so.
— Walter Lippmann
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In the lottery of life there are more prizes drawn than blanks, and to one misfortune there are fifty advantages. Despondency is…
— Thomas De Witt Talmage
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The Span of Life is too short to be trifled away in unconcerning and unprofitable Matters.
— Mary Astell
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Make wars unprofitable and you make them impossible.
— A. Philip Randolph
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Knowledge, a rude unprofitable mass, the mere materials with which wisdom builds, till smoothed and squared and fitted to its place, does…
— William Cowper
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Speculations apparently the most unprofitable have almost invariably been those from which the greatest practical applications have emanated.
— John Herschel
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The study of mathematics is, if an unprofitable, a perfectly harmless and innocent occupation.
— G. H. Hardy
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