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"If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility."
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"This land on which so many centuries have left their mark is merely an obligatory retreat for you, whereas it has always been our dearest hope. Your too sudden passion is made up of spite and necessity."
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"In the legal respect, after the execution of the supposed incendiaries, the other half of Moscow burned down."
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"Up to 90% of all inventions of the world comes from the Protestant world."
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"And out of that hopeless attempt has come nearly all that we call human history-money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slavery-the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy."
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"Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point."
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"What connexion can there be, between the place in Lincolnshire, the house in town, the Mercury in powder, and the whereabout of Jo the outlaw with the broom, who had that distant ray of light upon him when he swept the churchyard-step? What connexion can there have been between many people in the innumerable histories of this world, who, from opposite sides of great gulfs, have, nevertheless, been very curiously brought together!"
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"Historian - a broad-gauge gossip."
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"The world's battlefields have been in the heart chiefly; more heroism has been displayed in the household and the closet, than on the most memorable battlefields in history."
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"If Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at the age of 22, it would have changed the history of music and of aviation."
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"Truth, they say, is but too often in difficulties, but is never finally suppressed."
Truth
"Men are slower to recognize blessings than misfortunes."
Man
"Under the influence of fear, which always leads men to take a pessimistic view of things, they magnified their enemies' resources, and minimized their own."
Man
"The sun has not yet set for all time."
Time
"We can endure neither our vices nor the remedies for them."
Self-Improvement
"There are laws for peace as well as war."
Peace
"The old Romans all wished to have a king over them because they had not yet tasted the sweetness of freedom."
Freedom
"Many difficulties which nature throws in our way, may be smoothed away by the exercise of intelligence."
Intelligence
"The result showed that fortune helps the brave."
Fortune
"Rome has grown since its humble beginnings that it is now overwhelmed by its own greatness."
History
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