"Come, come, leave business to idlers, and wisdom to fools: they have need of 'em: wit be my faculty, and pleasure my occupation, and let father Time shake his glass."
-William Congreve
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"There is in true beauty, as in courage, something which narrow souls cannot dare to admire.“
-William Congreve
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"I want to encourage our people, to educate our people to have the courage to understand and fight for their rights."
-Megawati Sukarnoputri
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"You cannot build character and courage by taking away a man's initiative and independence."
-William Boetcker
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"Resignation is the courage of Christian sorrow."
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