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Hope encourages men to endure and attempt everything in depriving them of it, or in making it too distant, you deprive them of their very soul.

Maurice de Saxe

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Maurice de Saxe
Age: 54 †
Born: 1696
Born: January 1
Died: 1750
Died: November 30
Comte De Saxe
Military Leader
Military Officer
Politician
Moritz Herzog von Sachsen
Endure
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Hope
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Depriving
Soul
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Everything
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Men
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