Protection is the first necessity of opulence and luxury.
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There are men here and there to whom the whole of life is like an after-dinner hour with a cigar; easy, pleasant, empty, perhaps enlivened by some fable of strife to be forgotten - before the end is told - even if there happens to be any end to it.
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He was obeyed, yet he inspired neither love nor fear, nor even respect. He inspired uneasiness. That was it
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A modern fleet of ships does not so much make use of the sea as exploit a highway.
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