It is a lesson

It is a lesson
It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to puttrust in ideas, and not in circumstances.
  

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Suspicion begets suspicion.
I liketo listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most peoplenever listen.
Sacrificers are not the ones to pity. The ones to pity are those they sacrifice.
All your fingernails grow with no convenient speed except broken one.
If Ishould ever be captured, I want no negotiation—andif I should request a negotiation from captivity they should consider that asign of duress.
Don'tjudge a book by its cover.
Most of the shadows of this life are caused by our standing in our own sunshine.
Onemight as well try to ride two horses moving in different directions, as totry to maintain in equal force two opposing or contradictory sets of desires.
Am Inot destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?
To exaggrerate is to weaken.
The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition.
Thereis nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries thanan agreement.