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• ‟ Think where man's glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.

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• ‟ Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.

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• ‟ Why should we honour those that die upon the field of battle? A man may show as reckless a courage in entering into the abyss of himself.

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• ‟ An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick, unless soul clap its hands and sing, and louder sing for every tatter in its mortal dress.

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• ‟ Man can embody truth but he cannot know it.

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• ‟ I have believed the best of every man. And find that to believe is enough to make a bad man show him at his best, or even a good man swings his lantern higher.

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• ‟ Nor dread nor hope attend a dying animal; a man awaits his end dreading and hoping all.

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• ‟ You that would judge me, do not judge alone this book or that, come to this hallowed place where my friends' portraits hang and look thereon; Ireland's history in their lineaments trace; think where man's glory most begins and ends and say my glory was I had such friends.

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