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The words he dared to speak , his friends dare not repeat ; the life he dared to live , his friends dare not describe , at the foot of his statue ! To mention now what he thought his great achievement will be deemed unkind !
The words he dared to speak , his friends dare not repeat ; the life he dared to live , his friends dare not describe , at the foot of his statue ! To mention now what he thought his great achievement will be deemed unkind !
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The sultan dared to murder his Janizaries only when the streets came to hate them as much as he did . The czar , at the head of a government whose constitution knows no check but poison and the dagger , yet feels the pressure of public ...
The sultan dared to murder his Janizaries only when the streets came to hate them as much as he did . The czar , at the head of a government whose constitution knows no check but poison and the dagger , yet feels the pressure of public ...
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The world waited fifty years before , in 1846 , Robert Peel dared to venture , as a matter of practical statesman- ship , the theory of free trade . Adam Smith theorized , the French statesmen dreamed , but no man at the head of affairs ...
The world waited fifty years before , in 1846 , Robert Peel dared to venture , as a matter of practical statesman- ship , the theory of free trade . Adam Smith theorized , the French statesmen dreamed , but no man at the head of affairs ...
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