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You needn't love your enemy, but if you refrain from telling lies about him, you are doing well enough.
You needn't love your enemy, but if you refrain from telling lies about him, you are doing well enough.
Our real enemies are the people who make us feel so good that we are slowly, but inexorably, pulled down read more
Our real enemies are the people who make us feel so good that we are slowly, but inexorably, pulled down into the quicksand of smugness and self-satisfaction.
Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare read more
Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.
I wish my deadly foe no worse, Than want of friends, and empty purse.
I wish my deadly foe no worse, Than want of friends, and empty purse.
One very important ingredient of success is a good, wide-awake, persistent, tireless enemy.
One very important ingredient of success is a good, wide-awake, persistent, tireless enemy.
If you have no enemies, you are apt to be in the same predicament in regard to friends.
If you have no enemies, you are apt to be in the same predicament in regard to friends.
An enemy is anyone who tells the truth about you.
An enemy is anyone who tells the truth about you.
Nothing would more contribute to make a man wise than to have always an enemy in his view.
Nothing would more contribute to make a man wise than to have always an enemy in his view.
