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Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.Giorgos Seferis
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Necessity knows no law.Proverb collected by Thomas Preston · Thomas Preston (compiler), A Dictionary of English Proverbs and Proverbial Phrases, proverb 1134. — https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/39281/pg39281-images.html#proverb_1134
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A thing you don't want is dear at any price.Quotation recorded by James Wood · Wood, Dictionary of Quotations, ebook 48105, HTML paragraph 1369. Printed attribution: Pr. — https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/48105
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A fool knows more in his own house than a wise man in another's.Quotation recorded by James Wood · Wood, Dictionary of Quotations, ebook 48105, HTML paragraph 344. Printed attribution: Pr. — https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/48105