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At weekends, I've been going on long but steady-paced four-and-a-half-hour bike rides. ↗

— Denise Van Outen

#bike #going #i #long #rides

I used to spend all my school holidays cycling around, so all this training has made me feel like a kid again. ↗

— Denise Van Outen

#around #cycling #feel #holidays #i

Men pretend they don't like to be nagged, but they love it, really. It makes them feel wanted. ↗

— Denise Van Outen

#like #love #makes #men #pretend

Bear and endure: This sorrow will one day prove to be for your good. ↗

— Ovid

#bear #day #endure #good #one day

Happy are those who dare courageously to defend what they love. ↗

— Ovid

#dare #defend #happy #love #those

The vulgar crowd values friends according to their usefulness. ↗

— Ovid

#crowd #friends #their #usefulness #values

He that rebels against reason is a real rebel, but he that in defence of reason rebels against tyranny has a better title to Defender of the Faith, than George the Third. ↗

— Thomas Paine

#better #defence #defender #faith #george

It is not a field of a few acres of ground, but a cause, that we are defending, and whether we defeat the enemy in one battle, or by degrees, the consequences will be the same. ↗

— Thomas Paine

#battle #cause #consequences #defeat #defending

War involves in its progress such a train of unforeseen circumstances that no human wisdom can calculate the end; it has but one thing certain, and that is to increase taxes. ↗

— Thomas Paine

#certain #circumstances #end #human #human wisdom

Virtues are acquired through endeavor, Which rests wholly upon yourself. So, to praise others for their virtues Can but encourage one's own efforts. ↗

— Thomas Paine

#efforts #encourage #endeavor #others #own