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For peace do not hope; to be just you must break it.
Still work for the minute and not for the year.

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The organized charity, scrimped and iced, In the name of a cautious, statistical Christ.

Be silent and safe—silence never betrays you.

Take gifts with a sigh: most men give to be paid.

I'd rather live in Bohemia than in any other land.

Who heeds not experience, trust him not.

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The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war.

Erasmus Adagia (1508)

There is a price which is too great to pay for peace, and that price can be put in one word. One cannot pay the price of self-respect.

Woodrow Wilson

To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace.

George Washington

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