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Quote by Horatio Nelson
Our country will, I believe, sooner forgive an officer for attacki

Our country will, I believe, sooner forgive an officer for attacking an enemy than for letting it alone. – Horatio Nelson

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I could not tread these perilous paths in safety, if I did not keep a saving sense of humor. – Horatio Nelson

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Humor
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Duty is the great business of a sea officer all private considerations must give way to it, however painful it may be. – Horatio Nelson

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Business
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Now I can do no more. We must trust to the Great Disposer of all events and the justice of our cause. I thank God for this opportunity of doing my duty. – Horatio Nelson

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Trust
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To stand up on a stage alone with an acoustic guitar requires bravery bordering on heroism. Bordering on insanity. – Richard Thompson

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If you write a novel alone you sit and you weave a little narrative. And its O.K., but its of no account. – V. S. Naipaul

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We are rarely proud when we are alone. – Voltaire

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We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together. – Jean de la Bruyere

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I came to the place of my birth and cried, The friends of my youth, where are they? And echo answered, Where are they? – Arabic Proverb

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If an animal does something, we call it instinct if we do the same thing for the same reason, we call it intelligence. – Will Cuppy

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Be slow of tongue and quick of eye. – Miguel de Cervantes

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Between sisters, often, the child’s cry never dies down. Never leave me, it says; do not abandon me. – Louise Bernikow

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