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A man of character in peace is a man of courage in war.

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A man of sixty has spent twenty years in bed and over three years in eating.

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A man of understanding has lost nothing, if he has himself.

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A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.

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A man who builds his own pedestal had better use strong cement.

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A man who could build a church, as one may say, by squinting at a sheet of paper.

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There is only one blasphemy, and that is the refusal to experience joy.

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A mother understands what a child does not say.

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A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master, and deserves one.

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A person should want to live, if only out of curiosity.

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