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• No man can be a patriot on an empty stomach. -- William C. Brann (1855-1898), "Iconocla
• Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
  -- George Elio...
• An empty stomach is not a good political advisor. -- Albert Einstei
• It is only a poor sort of happiness that could ever come by caring very much about our own pleasures.
  We can only have the highest happiness such as goes along with being a great man, by having wide thoughts and much feeling for the rest of the world as well as ourselves....
• Any coward can fight a battle when he is sure of winning
  but give me the man who has pluck to fight when he's sure of losing....
• Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving in words evidence of the fact.
  -- George Eliot (1819-1880) -- Impressions on Theophrastus Such (1879)...
• Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us worthy evidence of the fact.
  -- George Eliot (1819-1880) English writer, Impressions of Theophratus Such...