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- Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.
- Vernon Sanders Law
- A duty dodged is like a debt unpaid; it is only deferred, and we must come back and settle the account at last.
- Joseph F. Newton
- Do something every day that you don't want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
- ...it is as hard to do your duty when men are sneering at you as when they are shooting at you.
- Woodrow Wilson (1856 - 1924)
- Genius is of no country.
- Charles Churchill
- Never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. People will take you very much at your own reckoning.
- Anthony Trollope (1815 - 1882)
- The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.
- William Hazlitt (1778 - 1830)
- There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
- Michel de Montaigne (1533 - 1592)
- A minute's success pays the failure of years.
- Robert Browning (1812 - 1889)
- Do thou restrain the haughty spirit in thy breast, for better far is gentle courtesy.
- Homer (800 BC - 700 BC)
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