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Quote by Thomas Hobbes
Sudden glory is the passion which makes those grimaces called laug

Sudden glory is the passion which makes those grimaces called laughter. – Thomas Hobbes

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The obligation of subjects to the sovereign is understood to last as long, and no longer, than the power lasteth by which he is able to protect them. – Thomas Hobbes

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The condition of man… is a condition of war of everyone against everyone. – Thomas Hobbes

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The final event to himself has been, that as he rose like a rocket, he fell like the stick. – Thomas Paine

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I have touched the highest point of all my greatness, and from that full meridian of my glory I haste now to my setting. – William Shakespeare

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