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All government -- indeed, every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue and every prudent act -- is founded on compromise and barter.: Edmund Burke (1729 - 1797), Speech on the Conciliation of America
Virtue is its own reward. There's a pleasure in doing good which sufficiently pays itself.: Sir John Vanbrugh, The Relapse
The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.: Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC), Rhetoric
Sing Ho! For the life of a Bear!: Winnie-the-Pooh by A. A. Milne
I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving -- we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it -- but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.: Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841 - 1935)
The Promised Land always lies on the other side of a Wilderness.: Havelock Ellis (1859 - 1939)
Expect everything, and anything seems nothing. Expect nothing, and anything seems everything.: Samuel Hazo
Politicians are the same all over. they promise to build a bridge even where there is no river.: Nikita Khrushchev (1894 - 1971)
The best argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with the average voter.: Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more, Or close the wall up with our English dead! In peace there's nothing so becomes a man As modest stillness and humility; But when the blast of war blows in our ears, Then imitate the action of the tiger: Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood.: Shakespeare, King Henry V, Act III, Scene 1

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