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First thoughts are not always the best.

— Vittorio Alfieri

Sempre il miglior non è il parer primiero.

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Ofttimes the test of courage becomes rather to live than to die.

A usurper always distrusts the whole world.

To err is human; but contrition felt for the crime distinguishes the virtuous from the wicked.

I willed, and always willed, and strongly willed.

Where there are laws, he who has not broken them need not tremble.

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