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A shipin harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.

Between friends there is no need of Justice.

To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.

Bring ideas in and treat them royally,for one of them may be the king.

All bravery stands upon comparisons.

If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escapea hundred days of sorrow.

All faults may be forgiven of him who has perfect candour

The man with the new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

Arbitrary power is like most other things which are veryhard, very liable to be broken.

The tormentof human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that theself is in prison, its vital force and ‘mangled mind’ leaking away in lonely,wasteful self-conflict.

Responsibility is the high price of self-ownership.