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- An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
- Neither soldiers nor money can defend a king but only friends won by good deeds, merit, and honesty.
- Ambition drove many men to become false; to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue.
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