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- Don't make use of another's mouth unless it has been lent to you.
- Belgian Proverb
- Don't think of retiring from the world until the world will be sorry that you retire. I hate a fellow whom pride or cowardice or laziness drives into a corner, and who does nothing when he is there but sit and growl. Let him come out as I do, and bark.
- Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
- Live well. It is the greatest revenge.
- The Talmud
- Rejoice not at thine enemy's fall - but don't rush to pick him up either.
- Jewish Proverb
- The best way to realize the pleasure of feeling rich is to live in a smaller house than your means would entitle you to have.
- Edward Clarke
- We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841 - 1935)
- If you want to be free, there is but one way; it is to guarantee an equally full measure of liberty to all your neighbors. There is no other.
- Carl Schurz (1829 - 1906)
- First weigh the considerations, then take the risks.
- Helmuth von Moltke (1800 - 1891)
- To do anything in this world worth doing, we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in, and scramble through as well as we can.
- Sydney Smith (1771 - 1845)
- If you reveal your secrets to the wind you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.
- Kahlil Gibran (1883 - 1931)
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