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"For what the horse does under compulsion, as Simon also observes, is done without understanding; and there is no beauty in it either, any more than if one should whip and spur a dancer."
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"Stars earn their brightest colors in the dark."
"Each moment has an unrealized dimension of beauty that only your perspective can liberate."
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"There is small risk a general will be regarded with contempt by those he leads, if, whatever he may have to preach, he shows himself best able to perform."
"Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not."
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