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"We now consider as fundamental economic functions of the state, many duties that were left a generation ago to chance."
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"For the space of half a year, the gunpowder lay as harmless as sand, because no fire came near to explode it."
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"I don't give players a chance to hit me."
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"Refusing to ask for help when you need it is refusing someone the chance to be helpful."
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"In front of us was not a line but a fortress position, twenty miles deep, entrenched and fortified, defended by masses of machine-gun posts and thousands of guns in a wide arc. No chance for cavalry!"
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"The vice president had a bargaining asset, however, that no ordinary person has: He was next in line to the presidency. I saw no chance that he would resign first, then take his chances on trial, conviction, and jail."
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"Only a fool would refuse to enter a fool's paradise when that's the only paradise he'll ever have a chance to enter."
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"We've had a chance to be seen by viewers who had never seen us before, and we've kept a lot of them."
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"If your parents didn't have any children, there's a good chance that you won't have any."
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"I cry every chance I get."
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"I have, alas, only one illusion left, and that is the Archbishop of Canterbury."
Illusion
"I look upon Switzerland as an inferior sort of Scotland."
Scotland
"Solitude cherishes great virtues and destroys little ones."
Solitude
"A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whose timidity prevented them from making a first effort."
Men
"What a pity it is that we have no amusements in England but vice and religion!"
Fans
"What would life be without arithmetic, but a scene of horrors?"
Life
"Manners are like the shadows of virtues, they are the momentary display of those qualities which our fellow creatures love and respect."
Love
"Never give way to melancholy; resist it steadily, for the habit will encroach."
Habit
"Correspondences are like small clothes before the invention of suspenders; it is impossible to keep them up."
Clothes
"Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them."
Marriage
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