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- So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private citizens will occasionally kill their.s
- Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915)
- I have seen enough of one war never to wish to see another.
- Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)
- It cost about 75 cents to kill a man in Ceasar's time. The price rose to about $3,000 per man during the Napoleonic wars; to $5,000 in the American Civil War; and then to $21,000 per man in World War I. Estimates for the future wars indicate that it may cost the warring countries not less than $50,000 for each man killed.
- Senator Homer T. Bone
- Were there but one virtuous man in the world, he would hold up his head with confidence and honor; he would shame the world, and not the world him.
- South
- Virtue is its own reward, and brings with it the truest and highest pleasure; but if we cultivate it only for pleasure's sake, we are selfish, not religious, and will never gain the pleasure, because we can never have the virtue.
- Cardinal John Newman
- There is no restraining men's tongues or pens when charged with a little vanity.
- George Washington (1732 - 1799)
- Vanity makes us do more things against inclination than reason.
- Francois De La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)
- Offended vanity is the great separator in social life.
- Arthur Helps
- To ask for advice is in nine cases out of ten to ask for flattery.
- John Churton Collins
- Most people pay too much for the things they get for nothing.
- Author Unknown
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