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War is the only game in which both sides lose.

Walter Scott

Without courage there cannot be truth, and without truth there can be no other virtue.
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Courage Truth Virtue
The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it.
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Escape Resistance
War is the only game in which both sides lose.
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Deep Game Lose War
Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life.
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Guide Life Perfection Reason
Recollect that the Almighty, who gave the dog to be companion of our pleasures and our toils, hath invested him with a nature noble and incapable of deceit.
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Dog God Happiness Investment Nature
Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.
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Attitude Business Failure Success
Will future ages believe that such stupid bigotry ever existed!
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Age Believe Existence Stupidity
When true friends meet in adverse hour; ‘Tis like a sunbeam through a shower. A watery way an instant seen, The darkly closing clouds between.
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Darkness Friendship Hard Time True
Steady of heart and stout of hand.
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Hands Heart Time
Heaven know its time; the bullet has its billet.
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Heaven Time
If you once turn on your side after the hour at which you ought to rise, it is all over. Bolt up at once.
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Rise Yourself
As long as the Fates permit, live cheerfully.
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Fate Happiness Live
A sinful heart makes feeble hand.
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Hands Heart Sin
Cats are a mysterious kind of folk.
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Animal Mystery
Breathes there the man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land.
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Breathe Death Himself Man Soul
Heap on more wood! – the wind is chill; But let it whistle as it will, We’ll keep our Christmas merry still.
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Joy Nature Religious

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