"Aristocracy is always cruel."

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"Cultural values change with times, unless they are built on an absolute standard of values and virtues. This standard must be afterwards well-guarded and protected."

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Terry Pratchett, English Author

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"Rare and precious gifts,gold and myrrh and frankincense,to offer a king."

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"I am sure I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round -- apart from the veneration due to its sacred name and origin, if anything belonging to it can be apart from that -- as a good time: a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time: the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely, and to think of people below them as if they really were fellow-passengers to the grave, and not another race of creatures bound on other journeys."

Charles Dickens, English Novelist

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"She's a Texan, born and raised. Football is in our blood."

Simone Elkeles, American Author

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"There's always time for arguin' when you're a Fuentes."

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"My father used to say that stories are part of the most precious heritage of mankind."

Tahir Shah, British Author

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"Even when she had to make some one a present of the kind called 'useful,' when she had to give an armchair or some table-silver or a walking-stick, she would choose 'antiques,' as though their long desuetude had effaced from them any semblance of utility and fitted them rather to instruct us in the lives of the men of other days than to serve the common requirements of our own."

Marcel Proust, French Author

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"There must always be a secret to be unwrapped at Christmas-that's the rule."

John Geddes, Canadian Author

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"What is fanaticism today is the fashionable creed tomorrow, and trite as the multiplication table a week after."

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"Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no protection: they have many friends and few enemies."

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"To be as good as our fathers we must be better, imitation is not discipleship."

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"The keener the want the lustier the growth."

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"Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty; power is ever stealing from the many to the few."

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"Truth is one forever absolute, but opinion is truth filtered through the moods, the blood, the disposition of the spectator."

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"Power is every stealing from the many to the few."

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"Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms."

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"Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is much higher and truer courage."

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"To hear some men talk of the government, you would suppose that Congress was the law of gravitation, and kept the planets in their places."

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