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So the heart be right, it is no matter which way the head lieth.

Walter Raleigh

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Walter Raleigh
Died: 1618
Died: October 29
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War begets quiet, quiet idleness, idleness disorder, disorder ruin likewise ruin order, order virtue, virtue glory, and good fortune.
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No one can take less pains than to hold his tongue. Hear much, and speak little for the tongue is the instrument of the greatest good and greatest evil that is done in the world.
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