"Our work is the presentation of our capabilities."
-Edward Gibbon
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"Every man who rises above the common level has received two educations: the first from his teachers the second, more personal and important, from himself."
-Edward Gibbon
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"I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions I have no respect."
-Edward Gibbon
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"The principles of a free constitution are irrecoverably lost, when the legislative power is nominated by the executive."
-Edward Gibbon
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"But the power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy, except in those happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous."
-Edward Gibbon
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"The courage of a soldier is found to be the cheapest and most common quality of human nature."
-Edward Gibbon
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"I have the greatest sympathy with the growth of the socialist party. I think they understand the evils that surround us and hammer them into people's minds better than we Liberals."
-Charles Trevelyan
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"Captain Hale, alone, without sympathy or support, save that from above, on the near approach of death asked for a clergyman to attend him. It was refused. He then requested a Bible that too was refused by his inhuman jailer."
-William Hull
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"I didn't feel any remorse or sympathy if I injured a rival. I went over the top a few times but I never broke anyone's leg."
-Peter Storey
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"It is the right of our people to organize to oppose any law and any part of the Constitution with which they are not in sympathy."
-Alfred E. Smith
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"There's a certain amount of sympathy here for the Bush administration's problem, which is they would like to get rid of Saddam Hussein and they would like to have the Kurds autonomous."
-Les Aspin
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"Teetotallers lack the sympathy and generosity of men that drink."
-W. H. Davies
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