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I sighed as a lover, I obeyed as a son. - Edward Gibbon

I sighed as a lover, I obeyed as a son. – Edward Gibbon

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I understand by this passion the union of desire, friendship, and tenderness, which is inflamed by a single female, which prefers her to the rest of her sex, and which seeks her possession as the supreme or the sole happiness of our being. – Edward Gibbon

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Friendship
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As long as mankind shall continue to bestow more liberal applause on their destroyers than on their benefactors, the thirst of military glory will ever be the vice of exalted characters. – Edward Gibbon

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War
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History is little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind. – Edward Gibbon

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History
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Do that which is assigned to you and you cannot hope too much or dare too much. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Do your duty and leave the rest to heaven. – Pierre Corneille

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Duty

Sufficient to each day are the duties to be done and the trials to be endured. God never built a Christian strong enough to carry todays duties and tomorrows anxieties piled on the top of them. – Theodore L. Cuyler

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The line of life is a ragged diagonal between duty and desire. – William R. Alger

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Freedom requires no effort to enjoy but requires heroic efforts to preserve. – Richard G. Scott

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The only really happy folk are married women and single men. – H. L. Mencken

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