By gnawing through a dyke even a rat may drown a nation.

By gnawing through a dyke even a rat may drown a nation.

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You can never plan the future by the past.

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It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.

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Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.

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Education is the cheap defense of nations.

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