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“We fight to great disadvantage when we fight with those who have nothing to lose.”

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Affairs that depend on many rarely succeed.

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The affairs of this world are so shifting and depend on so many accidents, that it is hard to form any judgment concerning the…

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Experience has always shown, and reason also, that affairs which depend on many seldom succeed.

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There is no evil in human affairs that has not some good mingled with it. [It., Non e male alcuno nelle cose umane che…

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To give vent now and then to his feelings, whether of pleasure or discontent, is a great ease to a man's heart.

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There is nothing so fleeting as the memory of benefits received.

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I know no man who feels deeper disgust than I do at the ambition, avarice, and profligacy of the priesthood, as well because every…

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the crucial disadvantage of aggression, competitiveness and skepticism as national characteristics is that these qualities cannot be turned off at five o'clock.

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