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A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.

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Heroing is one of the shortest-lived professions there is.

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Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.

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In times like these, it helps to recall that there have always been times like these.

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Any event, once it has occurred, can be made to appear inevitable by a competent historian.

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Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.

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Hanging is too good for a man who makes puns; he should be drawn and quoted.

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Laughter is the closest distance between two people.

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A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.

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I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way.

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