Croesus said to Cambyses That peace was better than war because in peace the sons did bury their fathers, but in wars the fathers did bury their sons
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The correlative to loving our neighbors as ourselves is hating ourselves as we hate our neighbors.Francis Bacon
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The first creature of God, in the works of the days, was the light of the sense the last was the light of reason And his Sabbath work ever since is the illumination of his Spirit.
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History makes people wise.
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