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“A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself”. –John Stuart Mill

“Our principles are the springs of our actions. Our actions, the springs of our happiness or misery. Too much care, therefore, cannot be taken in forming our principles”. –Red Skelton

“No one is more miserable than the person who wills everything and can do nothing”. –Claudius

“Next to a battle lost, the greatest misery is a battle gained”. –Duke of Wellington

“Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery”. –Edward Gibbon