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They had been disciplined to obey, and learned the advantage of subordination to law and good order in promoting the prosperity and happiness of themselves and the rest of mankind.”
“People are fascinated by the rich: Shakespeare wrote plays about kings, not beggars.”
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“It was war, and in war the truth was almost always the first casualty.”
― Executive Power
― Executive Power
“There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that receives it.”
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“Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors.”
― Cosmos
― Cosmos
“A sense of duty pursues us ever. It is omnipresent, like the Deity. If we take to ourselves the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea, duty performed or duty violated is still with us, for our happiness or our misery. If we say the darkness shall cover us, in the darkness as in the light our obligations are yet with us. —Daniel Webster Argument on the Murder of Captain White, APRIL 6, 1830. VOL. VI., P. 105.”
― The Forgotten 500: The Untold Story of the Men Who Risked All for the Greatest Rescue Mission of World War II: The Untold Story of the Men Who Risked All ... the GreatestRescue Mission of World War II
― The Forgotten 500: The Untold Story of the Men Who Risked All for the Greatest Rescue Mission of World War II: The Untold Story of the Men Who Risked All ... the GreatestRescue Mission of World War II
Don’s 2025 Year in Books
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