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Honor wears different coats to different eyes.

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Arguments can always be found to turn desire into policy.
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If I had taken a doctoral degree, it would have stifled any writing capacity.
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Nothing sickens me more than the closed door of a library.
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I ask myself, have nations ever declined from a loss of moral sense rather than from physical reasons or the pressure of barbarians? I think that they have.
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Business, like a jackal, trotted on the heels of war.
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Russians, in the knowledge of inexhaustible supplies of manpower, are accustomed to accepting gigantic fatalities with comparative calm.
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Woman was the Church's rival, the temptress, the distraction, the obstacle to holiness, the Devil's decoy.
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The Hundred Years' War, like the crises of the Church in the same period, broke apart medieval unity.
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The unrecorded past is none other than our old friend, the tree in the primeval forest which fell without being heard
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Learning from experience is a faculty almost never practiced
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If it is not profitable for the common good that authority should be retained, it ought to be relinquished.
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To gain victory over the flesh was the purpose of fasting and celibacy, which denied the pleasures of this world for the sake of reward in the next.
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satire is a wrapping of exaggeration around a core of reality.
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