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"There are many victories worse than a defeat."
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"A reformer is one who sets forth cheerfully toward sure defeat."
"Defeat should never be a source of discouragement but rather a fresh stimulus."
"The deepest human defeat suffered by human beings is constituted by the difference between what one was capable of becoming and what one has in fact become."
"The deepest personal defeat suffered by human beings is constituted by the difference between what one was capable of becoming and what one has in fact become."
"I've learned that something constructive comes from every defeat."
"Washington's defeat in 1754 was followed by active military preparations on both sides."
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"He has got no good red blood in his body," said Sir James."No. Somebody put a drop under a magnifying glass, and it was all semicolons and parentheses," said Mrs. Cadwallader."
"You must mind and not lower the Church in people's eyes by seeming to be frightened about it for such a little thing."
"She was no longer struggling against the perception of facts, but adjusting herself to their clearest perception."
"Sane people did what their neighbours did, so that if any lunatics were at large, one might know and avoid them."
"A medical man likes to make psychological observations, and sometimes in the pursuit of such studies is too easily tempted into momentous prophecy which life and death easily set at nought."
"In the multitude of middle-aged men who go about their vocations in a daily course determined for them much in the same way as they tie their cravats there is always a good number who once meant to shape their own deeds and alter the world a little."
"If we had lost our own chief good, other people's good would remain, and that is worth trying for."
"Mortals are easily tempted to pinch the life out of their neighbour's buzzing glory, and think that such killing is no murder."
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