George Washington

There is nothing that gives a man consequence, and renders him fit for command, like a support that renders him independent of everybody but the State he serves.

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Charles V

Name me an emperor who was ever struck by a cannonball.

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Greek Proverb

First secure an independent income, then practice virtue.

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Martha Beck, O Magazine, February 2003

Every instance of heartbreak can teach us powerful lessons about creating the kind of love we really want.

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Ecclesiastes

Be not slow to visit the sick.

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Lord Robert Baden-Powell

Girls should be brought up to be comrades and helpers, not to be dolls. They should take a real and not a visionary share in the welfare of the nation.

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Alice Killer

I've arrived at this outermost edge of my life by my own actions. Where I am is thoroughly unacceptable. Therefore, I must stop doing what I've been doing.

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Tennessee Williams

A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with.

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Karin Meißenburg, translator and author

The stability of the whole is guaranteed by the instability of its parts.

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Mignon McLaughlin

There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, so few that we feel like doing today.

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Orson Welles

Gluttony is not a secret vice.

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Sir Philip Sidney

No sword bites so fiercly as an evil tongue.

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