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• What we obtain too cheap we esteem too little; it is dearness only that gives everything its value.
  Thomas Paine...
• The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.
  What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value....
• These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country
  but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of our men and women....
• That which we obtain too easily, we esteem too lightly.
• We never repent of having eaten too little." -- Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)
• We turn toward God only to obtain the impossible.
• We could have saved [the Earth] but we were too damned cheap. -- Kurt Vonnegu
• When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.
  -- Thomas Paine "Common Sense...
• When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.
  -- Thomas Paine...