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Great commanders write their actions with simplicity because they receive more glory from facts than from words.

Baron de Montesquieu

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An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.
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When a government is arrived to that degree of corruption as to be incapable of reforming itself, it would not lose much by being new moulded.
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