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Our love of what is beautiful does not lead to extravagance; our love of the things of the mind does not make us soft. We regard wealth as something to be properly used, rather than as something to boast about. As for poverty, no one need be ashamed to admit it, the real shame is in not taking practical measures to escape from it.

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'Tis time to fear, when tyrants seem to kiss.

Wait for that wisest of all counselors, Time.

But the bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding go out to meet it.

Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.

Homage to Greece (1943)

Trees, though they are cut and lopped, grow up again quickly, but if men are destroyed, it is not easy to get them again.

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