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“It is frequently a misfortune to have very brilliant men in charge of affairs. They expect too much of ordinary men.”

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“We secure our friends not by accepting favors but by doing them”

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“Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty”

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“Men's indignation, it seems, is more excited by legal wrong than by violent wrong; the first looks like being cheated by an equal, the second like being compelled by a superior”

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“The strong do what they have to do and the weak accept what they have to accept.”

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“The fact is that one side thinks that the profits to be won outweigh the risks to be incurred, and the other side would rather avoid danger than accept an immediate loss.”

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“Be convinced that to be happy means to be free and that to be free means to be brave. Therefore do not take lightly the perils of war.”

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“I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.”

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