A martyr is a hero who didn't make it.
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- MARTYR, n. One who moves along the line of least reluctance to a
desired death.
Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's... - A hero is a man who consistently violates the law of conservation of energy.
Solomon... - He had by now divested himself of schoolboy attitudes.
He was unburdened by the desire to be a martyr or a... - Soldiers who wish to be a hero
Are practically zero,
But those who wish to be civilians, They run into the... - The income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf
has.
Even when you make a tax form out on the level, you... - It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.
Napoleon...
