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Beverley Nichols

"To be overcome by the fragrance of flowers is a delectable form of defeat."

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"To be overcome by the fragrance of flowers is a delectable form of defeat."

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"But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated."

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"When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield."

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"We know that if gold, if fraud, if force can defeat us, they will all be used. And we have resolved that they shall not defeat us. We shall arm. We shall meet fraud and falsehood with defiance, and force with force, if need be."

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"There is a hangover from a defeat like Denmark - ask any player about when they've had a bad game, it's still in there somewhere in the back of your mind."

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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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"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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"For a gallant spirit there can never be defeat."

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"I'm a political scientist and I study these things, and I know that economic problems, with the rising unemployment and inflation and low productivity and so forth, were a factor in that election, in that defeat of President Carter."

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"Defeat should never be a source of discouragement, but rather a fresh stimulus."

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"We didn't defeat the Nazis by becoming Nazis."

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"To be overcome by the fragrance of flowers is a delectable form of defeat."
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