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There is always more spirit in attack than in defence.
LivyLivy Resistance to criminal rashness comes better late than never.
LivyLivy Envy, like flames, soars upwards.
LivyLivy Truth, they say, is but too often in difficulties, but is never finally suppressed.
LivyLivy Adversity reminds men of religion.
LivyLivy It is when fortune is the most propitious that she is least to be trusted.
LivyLivy We survive on adversity and perish in ease and comfort.
LivyLivy The sun has not yet set for all time.
LivyLivy A fraudulent intent, however carefully concealed at the outset, will generally, in the end, betray itself.
LivyLivy No law is quite appropriate for all.
LivyLivy No law can possibly meet the convenience of every one: we must be satisfied if it be beneficial on the whole and to the majority.
LivyLivy Men are slower to recognize blessings than evils.
LivyLivy There is nothing man will not attempt when great enterprises hold out the promise of great rewards.
LivyLivy The real power behind whatever success I have now was something I found within myself – something that’s in all of us, I think, a little piece of God just waiting to be discovered.
LivyLivy The most honorable, as well as the safest course, is to rely entirely upon valour.
LivyLivy That business does not prosper which you transact with the eyes of others.
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