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Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything. – Sydney Smith

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Human beings cling to their delicious tyrannies and to their exquisite nonsense, till death stares them in the face. – Sydney Smith

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Correspondences are like small clothes before the invention of suspenders; it is impossible to keep them up. – Sydney Smith

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Just two weeks ago, millions of Iraqis defied the threats of terrorists and went to the polls to determine their own future. I congratulate the Iraqi people for the courage theyve shown in making these elections so successful. – Bill Frist

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Courage is always the surest wisdom. – Wilfred Grenfell

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Lets drink to the spirit of gallantry and courage that made a strange Heaven out of unbelievable Hell, and lets drink to the hope that one day this country of ours, which we love so much, will find dignity and greatness and peace again. – Noel Coward

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Courage is as often the outcome of despair as of hope; in the one case we have nothing to lose, in the other everything to gain. – Diane de Poitiers

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