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When tremendous dangers are involved, no one can be blamed for looking to his own interest.

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We know that there can never be any solid friendship between individuals, or union between communities that is worth the name, unless the parties be persuaded of each others honesty
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Community Each Other Friendship Honesty Name Party Solid Worth
Still hope leads men to venture; and no one ever yet put himself in peril without the inward conviction that he would succeed in his design.
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Design Hope Man Misery Success
Ignorance is bold and knowledge reserved.
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Bold Ignorance Knowledge Reservation
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
It is the habit of mankind to entrust to careless hope what they long for, and to use sovereign reason to thrust aside what they do not desire.
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Desire Habit Hope Kind Man Reason
Contempt for an assailant is best shown by bravery in action.
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Action Assasination Best Brave
Stories happen to those who tell them.
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Convey Story Talk
They are surely to be esteemed the bravest spirits who, having the clearest sense of both the pains and pleasures of life, do not on that account shrink from danger.
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Brave Dangerous Happiness Pain Spirit
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
Right, as the world goes, is only in question between equals in power, while the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must.
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Equality Power Question Right Strong Suffering Weakness World
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
And where the rewards for merit are greatest, there are found the best citizens.
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Best Citizenship Greatness Reward
When tremendous dangers are involved, no one can be blamed for looking to his own interest.
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Blame Dangerous Interest
You should punish in the same manner those who commit crimes with those who accuse falsely.
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Commitment Crime Fake Punishment
Human nature is the one constant through human history. It is always there.
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Knowledge without understanding is useless.
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Knowledge Understand Wasted

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