There can be no prestige without mystery, for familiarity breeds contempt.
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You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.
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As an adolescent I was convinced that France would have to go through gigantic trials, that the interest of life consisted in one day rendering her some signal service and that I would have the occasion to do so.
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No nation has friends only interests.
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