In peace the sons bury their fathers and in war the fathers bury their sons.
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Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck of time.
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Speech of yourself ought to be seldom and well chosen.
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Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.
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It is in life as it is in ways, the shortest way is commonly the foulest, and surely the fairer way is not much about.
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