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"We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist."
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"Washington's defeat in 1754 was followed by active military preparations on both sides."
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"There are many victories worse than a defeat."
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"Man is not made for defeat."
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"You can learn a line from a win and a book from a defeat."
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"The struggle is always worthwhile, if the end be worthwhile and the means honorable; foreknowledge of defeat is not sufficient reason to withdraw from the contest."
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"Defeat doesn't finish a man, quit does. A man is not finished when he's defeated. He's finished when he quits."
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"I'm destined to be attracted to those I cannot defeat."
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"The loss of national identity is the greatest defeat a nation can know, and it is inevitable under the contemporary form of colonization."
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"The reason is that a military defeat of Britain will bring about the disintegration of the British Empire. This would not be of any benefit to Germany."
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"Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat."
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"I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness."
Happiness
"For a man to strike any women is most brutal, and I, as well as everyone else, think this far worse than any attempt to shoot, which, wicked as it is, is at least more comprehensible and more courageous."
Woman
"I don't dislike babies, though I think very young ones rather disgusting."
Baby
"A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one."
Marriage
"An ugly baby is a very nasty object - and the prettiest is frightful."
Baby
"Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves."
Events
"The Queen is most anxious to enlist everyone in checking this mad, wicked folly of 'Women's Rights'. It is a subject which makes the Queen so furious that she cannot contain herself."
Folly
"Being married gives one one's position like nothing else can."
Being
"We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist."
Defeat
"I would venture to warn against too great intimacy with artists as it is very seductive and a little dangerous."
Artist
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