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"He that is taken and put into prison or chains is not conquered, though overcome; for he is still an enemy."
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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."
"The soldier's main enemy is not the opposing soldier, but his own commander."
"It's hard to be done a favor by a man you hate. It's hard to hate him so much afterwards. Losing an enemy can be worse than losing a friend, if you've had him for long enough."
"Let the poor man count as his enemy, and his worst enemy, every invader of the right of free discussion."
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"That a man be willing, when others are so too, as far forth as for peace and defense of himself he shall think it necessary, to lay down this right to all things; and be contented with so much liberty against other men, as he would allow other men against himself."
"The disembodied spirit is immortal; there is nothing of it that can grow old or die. But the embodied spirit sees death on the horizon as soon as its day dawns."
"A wise man should so write (though in words understood by all men) that wise men only should be able to commend him."
"All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called "Facts". They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain."
"The secret thoughts of a man run over all things, holy, profane, clean, obscene, grave, and light, without shame or blame."
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