"No captain can do very wrong if he places his ship alongside that of the enemy."

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"No captain can do very wrong if he places his ship alongside that of the enemy."

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"We are our own worst enemy and make no mistake we are destroying ourselves."

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"If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

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"For them to perceive the advantage of defeating the enemy, they must also have their rewards."

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"'Tis best to weigh the enemy more mighty than he seems."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"Our enemies are quite good for relentlessly keeping us sharp and on our toes. This especially goes for sincere philosophers. They use their enemies to challenge their arguments so that they can know the weak points in their own reasoning and how to argue for and strengthen their position. There are just none like one's enemies to always look for his mistakes and do it harder than anyone else."

Criss Jami, American Philosopher

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"It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind."

Voltaire, French Writer

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"You may depend upon it that he is a good man whose intimate friends are all good, and whose enemies are decidedly bad."

Johann Kaspar Lavater, German Theologian

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"An excellent man; he has no enemies; and none of his friends like him."

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

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"Enemies are so stimulating."

Katharine Hepburn, American Actress

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"I don't believe man is a woman's natural enemy. Perhaps his lawyer is."

Shana Alexander, American Journalist

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"I cannot, if I am in the field of glory, be kept out of sight: wherever there is anything to be done, there Providence is sure to direct my steps."

Glory

"Gentlemen, when the enemy is committed to a mistake we must not interrupt him too soon."

Mistake

"First gain the victory and then make the best use of it you can."

Victory

"I cannot command winds and weather."

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"If I had been censured every time I have run my ship, or fleets under my command, into great danger, I should have long ago been out of the Service and never in the House of Peers."

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"Time is everything; five minutes make the difference between victory and defeat."

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"If a man consults whether he is to fight, when he has the power in his own hands, it is certain that his opinion is against fighting."

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"My greatest happiness is to serve my gracious King and Country and I am envious only of glory; for if it be a sin to covet glory I am the most offending soul alive."

Happiness

"My character and good name are in my own keeping. Life with disgrace is dreadful. A glorious death is to be envied."

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"Never break the neutrality of a port or place, but never consider as neutral any place from whence an attack is allowed to be made."

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