"There's no credit in not doing what you don't want to do. There's no virtue in not falling, when you're not tempted."

Virtue, Credit, Want

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"There's no credit in not doing what you don't want to do. There's no virtue in not falling, when you're not tempted."

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"Nothing is so unproductive as the law. It is expensive whether you win or lose."

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"Every man should have laws of his own, I should think; commandments of his own, for every man has a different set of circumstances wherein to work - or worry."

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"War is cruelty, and none can make it gentle."

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"Man is born in a day, and he dies in a day, and the thing is easily over; but to have a sick heart for three-fourths of one's lifetime is simply to have death renewed every morning; and life at that price is not worth living."

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