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Whereas ordinary officers must be content with behaving correctly in front of their men, the great leaders have always carefully stage-managed their effects.

Charles de Gaulle

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Belgium is a country invented by the British to annoy the French.
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Hearing Mass is the ceremony I most favor during my travels. Church is the only place where someone speaks to me and I do not have to answer back.
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Difficulty attracts the characterful man, for it is by grasping it that he fulfils himself.
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