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Stratagem is the right hand of cunning.

George William Curtis

Every great crisis of human history is a pass of Thermopylae, and there is always a Leonidas and his three hundred to die in it, if they can not conquer.
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Conquer Death Greatness History Human
Virtue does not truly reward her votary if she leaves him sad and half doubtful whether it would not have been better to serve vice.
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Better Doubt Reward Serve Virtue
It is not observed in history that families improve with time.
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Family History Observation Time
The world is not made for the prosperous alone, nor for the strong.
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Anand Thakur
The test of civilization is the estimate of woman.
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Civilization Estimate Test Woman
Progress begins with the minority. It is completed by persuading the majority, by showing the reason and the of the step forward, and that is accomplished by appealing to the intelligence of the majority.
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Beginning Intelligence Majority Minority Progress
Heroes in history seem to us poetic because they are there. But if we should tell the simple truth of some of our neighbors, it would sound like poetry.
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Hero History Ourselves Poet Truth
Patriotism is the vital condition of national permanence.
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Condition National Patriot
I walked beside the evening sea And dreamed a dream that could not be; The waves that plunged along the shore Said only: “Dreamer, dream no more!”
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Dreams Myself Sea Walk Wave
Prussia is great because her people are intelligent. They know the alphabet. The alphabet is conquering the world.
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Conquer Greatness Intelligence People World
Stratagem is the right hand of cunning.
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Hands Right Strategy
Good taste consists first upon fitness.
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Fit Goodness Taste
Books of entertainment first led Adam Clarke to believe in a spiritual world.
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Believe Book Entertainment Spiritual World
The big mistake that men make is that when they turn thirteen or fourteen and all of a sudden they’ve reached puberty, they believe that they like women. Actually, you’re just horny. It doesn’t mean you like women any more at twenty-one than you did at ten.
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Feeling Growth Mistake Puberty Woman Yourself
The Pride of ancestry increases in the ratio of distance.
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Distance Pride Ratio
Romance like a ghost escapes touching; it is always where you are not, not where you are. The interview or conversation was prose at the time, but it is poetry in the memory.
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Conversation Escape Ghost Memories Romance Time Touch

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