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In a democracy, someone who fails to get elected to office can always console himself with the thought that there was something not quite fair about it.

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Peace is an armistice in a war that is continuously going on.
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Peace War
The secret of happiness is freedom and the secret of freedom is courage.
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Courage Freedom Happiness Secret
When a man finds a conclusion agreeable, he accepts it without argument, but when he finds it disagreeable, he will bring against it all the forces of logic and reason.
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Agreement Finding Force Logic Man Reason
It is a general rule of human nature that people despise those who treat them well, and look up to those who make no concessions.
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Concession Human Nature People Rule Treat
For they had learned that true safety was to be found in long previous training, and not in eloquent exhortations uttered when they were going into action.
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Action Learning Safety Training True
I have written my work, not as an essay which is to win the applause of the moment, but as a possession for all time.
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Essay Moments Myself Possession Time Win Writing
Ignorance is bold and knowledge reserved.
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Bold Ignorance Knowledge Reservation
Love of power, operating through greed and through personal ambition, was the cause of all these evils.
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Ambition Evil Love Operation Personal Power Reason
Stories happen to those who tell them.
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Convey Story Talk
Most people, in fact, will not take the trouble in finding out the truth, but are much more inclined to accept the first story they hear.
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Fact Finding Hear People Story Trouble Truth
We secure our friends not by accepting favours but by doing them.
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Acceptance Action Friendship Security
When will there be justice in Athens? There will be justice in Athens when those who are not injured are as outraged as those who are.
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Angry Hurt Injury Justice
You shouldn’t feel sorry for the lifestyle you haven’t tasted, but for the one you are about to lose.
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Feeling Life Lose Style Taste Yourself
Three of the gravest failings, want of sense, of courage, or of vigilance.
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Courage Failure Need Sense
Don’t confuse meaning with truth.
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We must remember that one man is much the same as another, and that he is best who is trained in the severest school.
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Himself Man Remember School Training

In a democracy, someone who fails to get elected to office can always console himself with the thought that there was something not quite fair about it.

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