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We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect.
- Henry David Thoreau

Home is the place, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.
- Robert Frost

Politics is more dangerous than war, for in war you are only killed once.
- Winston Churchill

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have.
- Abraham Lincoln

Success is never found. Failure is never fatal. Courage is the only thing.
- Winston Churchill

Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.
- Benjamin Franklin

Charles Montesquieu Quotes and Quotations

The less men think; the more they talk.

- Charles Montesquieu | Conversation Quotes

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What the orators want in depth, they give you in length.

- Charles Montesquieu | Oratory Quotes

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Republics are brought to their ends by luxury; monarchies by poverty.

- Charles Montesquieu | Republic Quotes

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I have ever held it as a maxim never to do that through another which it was possible for me to execute myself.

- Charles Montesquieu | Self-Reliance Quotes

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I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should appear like a fool but be wise.

- Charles Montesquieu | Success Quotes

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Those who have few things to attend to are great babblers; for the less men think, the more they talk.

- Charles Montesquieu | Talk Quotes

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Don't hate, it's too big a burden to bear.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

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