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• Don't play for safety--it's the most dangerous thing in the world. -- Hugh Walpole
• The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.
  -- Mignon McLaughli...
• All men have their price. -- commonly ascribed to Sir Robert Walpole (1676-1745)
• The balance of power. -- Sir Robert Walpole (1676-1745) -- Speech, 1741
• We must have courage to bet on our ideas, to take the calculated risk, and to act.
  Everyday living requires courage if life is to be effective and bring happiness. -- Maxwell Maltz...
• Tis a sharp medicine, but it will cure all that ails you.
  -- Sir Walter Raleigh before his beheading...
• Anything but history, for history must be false. -- Sir Robert Walpole (1676-1745) -- Walpoliana, No.
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• The gratitude of place-expectants is a lively sense of future favours.
  -- Sir Robert Walpole (1676-1745)...
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