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• Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure .
  . . than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in a grey twilight that knows not victory nor defeat....
• It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better.
  The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly...
• It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled or where the doer of deeds could have done them better.
  The credit belongs to he man who is actually in the arena...
• It is not the critic who counts, or how the strong man stumbled, or whether the doer of deeds could have done them better.
  The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes short again and agai...
• To talk to a child, to fascinate him, is much more difficult than to win an electoral victory.
  But it is also much more satisfying. -- Colette...
• If you will not fight for right when you can easily win without bloodshed
  if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly...
• I would rather suffer defeat than have cause to be ashamed of victory. -- Quintus Curtiu
• The following appeared as an editorial in one of Coleville's city newspapers.
  "Even though a high percentage of Coleville City's businesses failed last year, we who live in Coleville City should keep in mind the fact that the Coleville region has attracted a great many new businesses over the last three years....
• INCOME, n. The natural and rational gauge and measure of respectability, the commonly accepted standards being artificial, arbitrary and fallaciou
  for, as "Sir Sycophas Chrysolater" in the play has justly remarked, "the true use and function of property (in whatsoever it consisteth -- coins, or land, or houses, or merchant- stuff, or anything which may be named as holden of right to one's own subservience) as also of honors, titles, preferments and place, and all favor and acquaintance of persons of quality or ableness, are but to get money....