"And the rarest dangers are those in which failure brings little loss and success the greatest advantage."

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“Right or community of blood was not the bond of union between them, so much as interest or compulsion as the case may be.”

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“That war is an evil is a proposition so familiar to every one that it would be tedious to develop it. No one is forced to engage in it by ignorance, or kept out of it by fear, if he fancies there is anything to be gained by it.”

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