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No man dies for what he knows to be true. Men die for what they wa

No man dies for what he knows to be true. Men die for what they want to be true, for what some terror in their hearts tells them is not true. – Oscar Wilde

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The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the selfish more selfish, the lazy more lazy, the narrow narrower. – Florence Nightingale

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The way of the world is, to praise dead saints, and persecute living ones. – Nathaniel Howe

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The torments of martyrdom are probably most keenly felt by the bystanders. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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