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Dignity is a matter which concerns only mankind.

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Great contests generally excite great animosities.
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Event Excitement Greatness
The name of freedom regained is sweet to hear.
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Freedom Listening Sweet
We can endure neither our vices nor their cure.
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Endurance Ourselves Vice
Wit is the flower of the imagination.
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Flower Imagination
An honor prudently declined often returns with increased luster.
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Honor Peace Respect Return
Truth, they say, is but too often in difficulties, but is never finally suppressed.
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Difficult Hide Lost Truth
No crime can ever be defended on rational grounds.
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Crime Justice Law Legal Protection
Luck rules every human endeavor, especially war.
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Human Luck Rule War
Envy is blind, and is only clever in depreciating the virtues of others.
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Blind Eyes Jealous Smart Virtue
Nowhere are our calculations more frequently upset than in war.
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Ourselves Place Upset War
The populace is like the sea motionless in itself, but stirred by every wind, even the lightest breeze.
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Light Move Sea Wind
This above all makes history useful and desirable; it unfolds before our eyes a glorious record of exemplary actions.
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Action Desire Eyes Glory History
We feel public misfortunes just so far as they affect our private circumstances, and nothing of this nature appeals more directly to us than the loss of money.
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Direction Feeling Loss Money Privacy
It is easier to criticize than to correct our past errors.
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Blame Easy Mistake Ourselves Past
Men are only clever at shifting blame from their own shoulders to those of others.
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Blame Clever Man People Smart
Never is work without reward, or reward without work.
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Inspirational Reward Success Work

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