"No one knows what he can do till he tries."

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

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

“The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.”

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

“Every day should be passed as if it were to be our last.”

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

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