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

"The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink."

"Let the poor man count as his enemy, and his worst enemy, every invader of the right of free discussion."

"Everyone needs a warm personal enemy or two to keep him free from rust in the movable parts of his mind."

"Any non-commissioned officer is more of an enemy to a recruit, any schoolmaster to a pupil, then they are if they were free."
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"You cannot have a proud and chivalrous spirit if your conduct is mean and paltry; for whatever a man's actions are, such must be his spirit."

"The best protection for the people is not necessarily to believe everything people tell them."

"No man who is not willing to help himself has any right to apply to his friends, or to the gods."
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