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I have often before now been convinced that a democracy is incapable of empire.

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We secure our friends not by accepting favours but by doing them.
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Acceptance Action Friendship Security
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
Those who have experienced good and bad luck many times have every reason to be skeptical of successes.
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Experience Reason Success Time
It is from the greatest dangers that the greatest glory is to be won.
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Dangerous Glory Greatness Win
Hope, danger’s comforter.
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Comfortable Dangerous Hope
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
The whole earth is the sepulchre of famous men.
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Earth Fame Famous Man Place
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
Contempt for an assailant is best shown by bravery in action.
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Action Assasination Best Brave
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
An avowal of poverty is no disgrace to any man; to make no effort to escape it is indeed disgraceful.
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Effort Escape Grace Man Poverty
I have often before now been convinced that a democracy is incapable of empire.
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Capable Democracy Empire
And it is certain that those who do not yield to their equals, who keep terms with their superiors, and are moderate towards their inferiors, on the whole succeed best.
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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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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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