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Courage is fear that has said its prayers.

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We are the hero of our own story.

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Think wrongly if you please, but in all cases think for yourself.

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I told you I was sick.

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Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but judgment; and he betrays, instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion.

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I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings, and strictly honest who complained of bad luck.

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Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.

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Government is not reason; it is not eloquence; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.

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...in order that a man may be happy, it is necessary that he should not only be capable of his work, but a good judge of his work.

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Politics is the pursuit of trivial men who, when they succeed at it, become important in the eyes of more trivial men.

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