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T trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at t beginning if it is to be stopped at all
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The shades of night were falling fast,As though an Alpine village passedA youth, who bore, 'mid snow and ice,A banner with the strange device,ExcelsiorHis brow was sad his eye beneath,Flashed like a falchion from its sheath,And like a silver clarion rungThe accents of that unknown tongue,Excelsior
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Learn to labour and to wait.
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The course of my long life hath reached at last In fragile bark o'er a tempestuous sea...
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Into each life some rain must fall, some days be dark and dreary.
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