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Distinguished ancestors shed a powerful light on their descendants, and forbid the concealment either of their merits or of their demerits.

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Necessity makes even the timid brave.
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Brave Circumstance Coward Necessary
Among intellectual pursuits, one of the most useful is the recording of past events.
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Event Intellectual Past Pursuit
The very life which we enjoy is short.
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Enjoyment Life One Liner Short
Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.
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Decay Fall Life Philosophy Rise
It is always easy to begin a war, but very difficult to stop one.
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Beginning Difficult Easy Oneself Stop
Those most moved to tears by every word of a preacher are generally weak and a rascal when the feelings evaporate.
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Evaporate Feeling General Move Tears Weakness Word
One can ever assume to be what he is not, and to conceal what he is.
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Assume Conceal Himself
The glory of riches and of beauty is frail and transitory; virtue remains bright and eternal.
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Beautiful Bright Forever Fragile Glory Rich
Small communities grow great through harmony, great ones fall to pieces through discord.
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Community Discord Greatness Harmony Oneself Pieces Small
Neither the army nor the treasury, but friends, are the true supports of the throne; for friends cannot be collected by force of arms, nor purchased with money; they are the offspring of kindness and sincerity.
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Army Collection Force Kindness Kingdom Money Sincere Support Treasure True
Enough words, little wisdom.
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Enough Wisdom Word
But at power or wealth, for the sake of which wars, and all kinds of strife, arise among mankind, we do not aim; we desire only our liberty, which no honorable man relinquishes but with his life.
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Desire Himself Kind Liberty Life Man Power War Wealth
It is sweet to surve one country by deeds, and it is not absurd to surve her by words.
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Country Herself Madness Sweet Word
Poor Britons, there is some good in them after all – they produced an oyster.
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Goodness Pearl Production
Every bad precedent originated as a justifiable measure.
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Bad Measurement Origin
Small endeavours obtain strength by unity of action: the most powerful are broken down by discord.
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Action Break Discord Small Strength Unity

Distinguished ancestors shed a powerful light on their descendants, and forbid the concealment either of their merits or of their demerits.

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