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- It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once.
- David Hume (1711 - 1776)
- Whatever thy hand findest to do, do it with all thy heart.
- Jesus Christ
- God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
- Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
- Talk not of wasted affection; affection never was wasted.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 - 1882)
- She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit.
- W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965)
- Well, all I know is what I read in the papers.
- Will Rogers (1879 - 1935)
- Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and fans the bonfire.
- La Rochefoucald
- Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great.
- Comte DeBussy-Rabutin
- The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's throat, for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty.
- Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
- Freedom hath a thousand charms to show,
That slaves however contented never know. - Cowper
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