Never to walk from the station's lamps and laurels Carrying my father's lean old leather case...
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Bush has cruised through life fueled by booze, drugs and bravado. Hes proud to be an underachiever and he rests comfortably on the laurels of his father. Hes failed at every venture hes ever undertaken. And every mess hes created has been cleaned up for himarrests for drunk driving, cocaine, AWOL from the National Guard and numerous bad business deals. He is a self-made disaster. Yet, he was handed the keys to the kingdomTWICE! Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice. God help us all.
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The quickest and shortest way to crush whatever laurels you have won is for you to rest on them.
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Whether in chains or in laurels, liberty knows nothing but victories.
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Resting on your laurels is as dangerous as resting when you are walking in the snow. You doze off and die in your sleep.
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Yet once more, O ye laurels, and once more, Ye myrtles brown, with ivy never-sere,...
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Let arms give place to civic robes, laurels to paeans.
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