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We call a Man ungrateful, answered who having received a kindness, does not return the like, if occasion off ere.

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It is no disgrace but honorable rather to steal, except such things as the law forbids.
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Grace Law Respect
In the Face of Danger, Be Eager, Not Intimidated.
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Danger Quick Scare
He had put on the best-looking uniform that he could, thinking that, victory deserved the best-looking armour.
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Deserve Himself Victory
Do you not take him to be just who commits no manner of injustice?
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Commitment Himself Justice
Anything forced is not beautiful.
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Beautiful Force One Liner
Misleaders are slow to work hard but quick to act on greed. They convince their men that dishonest behavior leads to great wealth.
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Act Greatness Greedy Honesty Man Quick Rich
Success Should Never Breed Complacency.
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One Liner Success
Men, the enemy troops you can see are all that stands between us and the place we have for so long been determined to reach. We must find a way to eat them alive!
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Alive Eat Enemy Man Place
I am a stranger in all countries.
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Myself Nation
In my experience, men who respond to good fortune with modesty and kindness are harder to find than those who face adversity with courage.
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Courage Deep Experience Fortune Kindness Myself
If you consider what are called the virtues in mankind, you will find their growth is assisted by education and cultivation.
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Education Growth Human Virtue Yourself
Anyone who imprisoned people on the ground of ignorance might fairly be confined himself by those who understood what he did not.
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Himself Ignorance People Understand
Obedience Should Not Be the Result of Compulsion.
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Force Result
Success always calls for greater generosity—though most people, lost in the darkness of their own egos, treat it as an occasion for greater greed.
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Darkness Generosity Greatness Greedy People Success
And in general, every ordinance made without the consent of those who are to obey it, is a violence rather than a law.
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Democracy Law Politics Violence
I will choosing to die rather than to remain alive without freedom and beg, as an alternative to death, a vastly inferior life.
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Alive Choice Death Freedom Life Myself

We call a Man ungrateful, answered who having received a kindness, does not return the like, if occasion off ere.

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