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France is an absolute monarchy, tempered by ballads.

Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity.

However boldly their warm blood was spilt, Their life was shame, their epitaph was guilt; And this they knew and felt, at least the one, The leader of the hand he had undone,-- Who, born for better things, had madly set His life upon a cast, which linger'd yet.

Sorrow is the great idealizer.

Grief is only the memory of widowed affections.

My valet-de-chambre sings me no such song.

What is a society without a heroic dimension?

Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes.

Every hero becomes a bore at last.

Calculation never made a hero.

He who hesitates is a damned fool.

Dead on the field of honour.

One does not sell the earth upon which the people walk.

The map is not the territory.

We're animals. We're born like every other mammal and we live our whole lives around disguised animal thoughts.

It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.

Modesty is the only sure bait when you are fishing for praise.

Montana. It's everything Colorado thinks it is.

Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.

And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you--ask what you can do for your country. My fellow citizend of the world: ask not what American will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man.