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We hear only those questions for which we are in a position to find answers.
We hear only those questions for which we are in a position to find answers.
There are heroes in evil as well as in good.
There are heroes in evil as well as in good.
Sometimes we know the answers to our questions yet we still ask. Why? Its because the answers we know are read more
Sometimes we know the answers to our questions yet we still ask. Why? Its because the answers we know are the answers we cannot bear to admit.
It hath been an antient custom among them [Hungarians] that none
should wear a fether but he who had read more
It hath been an antient custom among them [Hungarians] that none
should wear a fether but he who had killed a Turk, to whom onlie
yt was lawful to shew the number of his slaine enemys by the
number of fethers in his cappe.
To a valet no man is a hero.
[Ger., Es gibt fur den Kammerdiener keiner Helden.]
To a valet no man is a hero.
[Ger., Es gibt fur den Kammerdiener keiner Helden.]
My valet-de-chambre sings me no such song.
My valet-de-chambre sings me no such song.
Worship of a hero is transcendent admiration of a great man.
Worship of a hero is transcendent admiration of a great man.
As the master so the valet. (Like master, like man.)
[Fr., Fel maltre, tel valet.]
As the master so the valet. (Like master, like man.)
[Fr., Fel maltre, tel valet.]
A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might read more
A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men