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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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Such is the nature of men, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves. – Thomas Hobbes

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Men
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During the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that conditions called war and such a war, as if of every man, against every man. – Thomas Hobbes

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power
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He that is taken and put into prison or chains is not conquered, though overcome; for he is still an enemy. – Thomas Hobbes

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Glory
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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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The greater the difficulty, the greater the glory. – Marcus Tullius Cicero

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The chief glory of every people arises from its authors. – Samuel Johnson

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The paths of glory lead but to the grave. – Thomas Gray

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A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer. – Dean Acheson

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Every man is the son of his own works. – Miguel de Cervantes

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I open with a clock striking, to beget an awful attention in the audience – it also marks the time, which is four o clock in the morning, and saves a description of the rising sun, and a great deal about gilding the eastern hemisphere. – Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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Music is the universal language: it is the same anywhere you go in the world. – Anonymous

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