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We ought to esteem it of the greatest importance that the fictions which children first hear should be adapted in the most perfect manner to the promotion of virtue. ↗

— Plato

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I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict. ↗

— Plato

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To prefer evil to good is not in human nature; and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils, no one will choose the greater when he might have the less. ↗

— Plato

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Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good. ↗

— Plato

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The greatest talents often lie buried out of sight. ↗

— Plautus

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If I'm enjoying myself, I find my opportunities for more fun become greater. ↗

— Martha Plimpton

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Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly. ↗

— Plutarch

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America is great not because it's a team. America is great because it is a nation whose founding documents elevated the rights of the individual. ↗

— John Podhoretz

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Barack Obama is one of the greatest politicians in American history. ↗

— John Podhoretz

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I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it. ↗

— Edgar Allan Poe

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