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It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow. ↗

— Miguel de Cervantes

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An ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination. ↗

— Voltaire

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The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination. ↗

— Voltaire

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The ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination. ↗

— Voltaire

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Every day of my life I walk with the idea that I am black, no matter how successful I am. And our success is tempered by that; you're successful in this way given the fact you are black, and most blacks don't get to that point. ↗

— Danny Glover

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I have always thought that foreign-policy idealism has to be tempered with realism. ↗

— William Hague

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In course of time, religion came with its rites invoking the aid of good spirits which were even more powerful than the bad spirits, and thus for the time being tempered the agony of fears. ↗

— Paul Harris

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Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable. ↗

— Sydney J. Harris

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A man who dreads trials and difficulties cannot become a revolutionary. If he is to become a revolutionary with an indomitable fighting spirit, he must be tempered in the arduous struggle from his youth. As the saying goes, early training means more than late earning. ↗

— Kim Jong Il

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To be a good actor... it is necessary to have a firmly tempered soul, to be surprised at nothing, to resume each minute the laborious task that has barely just been finished. ↗

— Sarah Bernhardt

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