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Words learned by rote a parrot may rehearse; but talking is not always to converse, not more distinct from harmony divine, the constant creaking of a country sign.: William Cowper (1731 - 1800)
In history as in life it is success that counts. Start a political upheaval and let yourself be caught, and you will hang as a traitor. But place yourself at the head of a rebellion and gain your point, and all future generations will worship you as the Father of their Country.: Hendrik W. Van Loon
The quality of American life must keep pace with the quantity of American goods. This country cannot afford to be materially rich and spiritually poor.: John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963)
When I was young I had an elderly friend who used often to ask me to stay with him in the country. He was a religious man and he read prayers to the assembled household every morning. But he had crossed out in pencil all the passages that praised God. He said that there was nothing so vulgar as to praise people to their faces and, himself a gentleman, he could not believe that God was so ungentlemanly as to like it.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965)
Those that are good manners at the court are as ridiculous in the country, as the behavior of the country is most mockable at the court.: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
Five thousand balloons, capable of raising two men each, could not cost more than five ships of the line; and where is the prince who can afford so to cover his country with troops for its defense as that 10,000 men descending from the clouds might not in many places do an infinite deal of mischief before a force could be brought together to repel them?: Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
Never forget that life can only be nobly inspired and rightly lived if you take it bravely and gallantly, as a splendid adventure in which you are setting out into an unknown country, to meet many a joy, to find many a comrade, to win and lose many a battle.: Annie Besant

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