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Any nation that thinks more of its ease and comfort than its freedom will soon lose its freedom and the ironical thing about it is that it will lose its ease and comfort too.W. Somerset Maugham
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Have not the cloak to make when it begins to rain.Proverb collected by Thomas Preston · Thomas Preston (compiler), A Dictionary of English Proverbs and Proverbial Phrases, proverb 266. — https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/39281/pg39281-images.html#proverb_266
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Tis easy to build castles in the air.Proverb collected by Thomas Preston · Thomas Preston (compiler), A Dictionary of English Proverbs and Proverbial Phrases, proverb 206. — https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/39281/pg39281-images.html#proverb_206
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Be captain of your own ship.Proverb collected by Thomas Preston · Thomas Preston (compiler), A Dictionary of English Proverbs and Proverbial Phrases, proverb 197. — https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/39281/pg39281-images.html#proverb_197