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Quote by George Borrow
Next to the love of God, the love of country is the best preventiv

Next to the love of God, the love of country is the best preventive of crime. – George Borrow

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The Germans are the most philosophic people in the world, and the greatest smokers: now I trace their philosophy to their smoking. Smoking has a sedative effect upon the nerves, and enables a man to bear the sorrows of this life (of which every one has his share) not only decently, but dignifiedly. – George Borrow

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If you must commit suicide… always contrive to do it as decorously as possible; the decencies, whether of life or of death, should never be lost sight of. – George Borrow

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Unfortunately, religion, like patriotism, is easy to misuse for political purposes. – Kjell Magne Bondevik

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My country, right or wrong is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying My mother, drunk or sober. – G. K. Chesterton

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Patriotism, the virtue of the vicious. – Oscar Wilde

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The higher American patriotism, on the other hand, combines loyalty to historical tradition and precedent with the imaginative projection of an ideal national Promise. – Herbert Croly

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Whatever success Ive had, I always like to top it. – Bernie Mac

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It is a fraud to borrow what we are unable to pay. – Publilius Syrus

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The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays. – Soren Kierkegaard

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