#dom

It is seldom very hard to do one's duty when one knows what it is, but it is often exceedingly difficult to find this out. ↗

— Samuel Butler

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Men are seldom more commonplace than on supreme occasions. ↗

— Samuel Butler

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Our ideals of freedom, set forth and realized in our Constitution, are our greatest export to the world. ↗

— Robert Byrd

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If I am fool, it is, at least, a doubting one; and I envy no one the certainty of his self-approved wisdom. ↗

— George Byron

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Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life. ↗

— Lord Byron

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Folly loves the martyrdom of fame. ↗

— Lord Byron

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The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

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What Churchill described as the twin marauders of war and tyranny have been almost entirely banished from our continent. Today, hundreds of millions dwell in freedom, from the Baltic to the Adriatic, from the Western Approaches to the Aegean. ↗

— David Cameron

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Freedom of expression is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom. ↗

— Benjamin Cardozo

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To wisely live your life, you don't need to know much Just remember two main rules for the beginning: You better starve, than eat whatever And better be alone, than with whoever. ↗

— Omar Khayyám

#wisdom #relationship