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As for poverty, no one need be ashamed to admit it, the real shame is in not taking practical measures to escape from it.

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Although only a few may originate a policy, we are all able to judge it.
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Judgment Policy
I am more afraid of our own mistakes than of our enemies’ designs.
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Afraid Design Enemy Mistake
Instead of looking on discussion as a stumbling block in the way of action, we think it an indispensable preliminary to any wise action at all.
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Action Discussion Indispensable Stumble Wise
For famous men have the whole earth as their memorial.
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Celebrity Earth Famous Memorial Men
It is right to endure with resignation what the gods send, and to face one’s enemies with courage.
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Courage Endurance Enemy Face God Resignation
For grief is felt not so much for the want of what we have never known, as for the loss of that to which we have been long accustomed.
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Death Grief Loss Want
Fishes live in the sea, as men do on land: the great ones eat up the little ones.
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Business Earth Eat Fish Men Power Sea
What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.
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Engrave Live Monument Past Stone
Time is the king of all men, he is their parent and their grave, and gives them what he will and not what they crave.
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Crave Grave King Men Parents Time
We do not imitate, but are a model to others.
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Imitate Model Reality
Better die standing than live kneeling.
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Attitude Die Knees Live One Liner
The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding go out to meet it.
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Brave Clear Danger Glory Meet Vision
Who makes the fairest show means most deceit.
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Deceit Fair Show
Your empire is now like a tyranny: it may have been wrong to take it; it is certainly dangerous to let it go.
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Dangerous Empire Let Go Wrong
It is difficult to argue with the belly, for it has no ears.
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Agrument Belly Difficult Ears
Not to be able to bear poverty is a shameful thing, but not to know how to chase it away by work is a more shameful thing yet.
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Chase Poverty Shame Work

As for poverty, no one need be ashamed to admit it, the real shame is in not taking practical measures to escape from it.

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As for poverty, no one need be ashamed to admit it, the real shame is in not taking practical measures to escape from it.

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