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"In Washington it is an honor to be disgraced. you have to have been somebody to fall."
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"When he endures nothing but endless miseries-- What pleasure is there in living the day after day, Edging slowly back and forth toward death?Anyone who warms their heart with the glow Of flickering hope is worth nothing at all. The noble man should either live with honor or die with honor. That's all there is to be said."
"There is no forgiveness. For women. A man may lose his honor and regain it again. But a woman cannot. She cannot."
"And after and for a long time to come he'd have reason to evoke the recollection of [the strangers'] smiles and to reflect upon the good will which provoked them for it had power to protect and to confer honor and to strengthen resolve and it had the power to heal men and to bring them to safety long after all other resources were exhausted."
"Don't start a fight if you can't duke it out. Either win or concede but whatever you do, don't have others fight for you."
"Selflessness. Humility. Truthfulness. These are the three marks of an honorable man."
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"There is such a thing as tempting the gods. Talking too much, too soon and with too much self-satisfaction has always seemed to me a sure way to court disaster. The forces of retribution are always listening. They never sleep."
"Everybody's for democracy in principle. It's only in practice that the thing gives rise to stiff objections."
"If a politician murders his mother, the first response of the press or of his opponents will likely be not that it was a terrible thing to do, but rather that in a statement made six years before he had gone on record as being opposed to matricide."
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