"For him who loves labor, there is always something to do."

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“It is sometimes expedient to forget who we are.”

“No tears are shed, when an enemy dies.”

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“God looks at the clean hands, not the full ones.”

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“It is a very hard undertaking to seek to please everybody.”

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