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• jewels have played a colorful part in the evolution of world affairs. Because precious stones tend to inspire both admiration and greed, leaders have found convenient excuses for seeking them and have used them to impress crowds, reward friends, deprive foes, forge alliances, and justify war. Jewels may find their highest expression in the decorative arts, but they have also earned a place in the art of the possible.

  Madeleine Albright

  Art, War, Expression

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• Greatness of any kind has no greater foe than a habit of drinking.

  Walter Scott

  Drinking, Greatness, Kind

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• A witty writer is like a porcupine; his quill makes no distinction between friend and foe.

  Josh Billings

  Witty, Porcupines, Quills

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• Along a stream that raced and ran
  Through tangled trees and over stones,
  That long had heard the pipes o' Pan
  And shared the joys that nature owns,
  I met a fellow fisherman,
  Who greeted me in cheerful tones.
  . . . .
  Foes think the bad in him they've guessed
  And prate about the wrong they scan;
  Friends that have seen him at his best
  Believe they know his every plan;
  I know him better than the rest,
  I know him as a fisherman.

  Edgar Guest

  Believe, Thinking, Fishing

  Edgar Albert Guest, “The Fisherman”

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• The bold sympathize with the bold; and in great hearts, there is always a certain friendship for a gallant foe.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Heart, Gallant, Certain

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• Women always find their bitterest foes among their own sex.

  Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

  Sex, Rivalry, Quarrels

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• Intemperate wits will spare neither friend nor foe, and make themselves the common enemies of mankind.

  Roger L'Estrange

  Enemy, Common, Wit

  Sir Roger L'Estrange (1714). “Fables of Æsop and other eminent mythologists: with morals and reflections”, p.392

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• The world is made up, for the most part, of fools and knaves, both irreconcileable foes to truth.

  George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham

  Truth, World, Knaves

  "The Works of His Grace, George Villiers, the Duke of Buckingham, Volume 2". Book by George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham ("Letter to Mr. Clifford, on his Human Reason", p. 105), 1770.

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• (Al) Lopez is a great believer in speed and hustle, in the go-go style of baseball. No other manager is so determined a foe of stodgy baseball, lack of hustle and slipshod practices and so powerful an advocate of the unexpected.

  Nellie Fox

  Baseball, Powerful, Practice

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• I believe in an America that is on the march - an America respected by all nations, friends and foes alike - an America that is moving, doing, working, trying - a strong America in a world
  of peace. That peace must be based on world law and world order, on the mutual respect of all nations for the rights and powers of others and on a world economy in which no nation lacks the
  ability to provide a decent standard of living for all of its people.

  John F. Kennedy

  Strong, Believe, Moving

  Speech at Convention Hall, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, www.presidency.ucsb.edu. October 31, 1960.

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• Insane!... Ask the tyrant who is his most dangerous foe, the sane man or the insane?

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Tyrants, Insane

  Henry David Thoreau (1992). “The Essays of Henry David Thoreau”, p.58, Rowman & Littlefield

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• The person who builds a character makes foes.

  Neil Young

  Character, Persons

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• Genius as an explosive power beats gunpowder hollow; and if knowledge, which should give that power guidance, is wanting, the chances are not small that the rocket will simply run amuck among friends and foes.

  Thomas Huxley

  Running, Knowledge, Giving

  Thomas Henry Huxley (1873). “Critiques and Addresses by Thomas Henry Huxley, LL.D., F.R.S”, p.7

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• Every day His servants are dying modestly and peacefully--not a word of victory on their lips; but Christ's deep triumph in their hearts--watching the slow progress of their own decay, and yet so far emancipated from personal anxiety that they are still able to think and plan for others, not knowing that they are doing any great thing. They die, and the world hears nothing of them; and yet theirs was the completest victory. They came to the battle field, the field to which they had been looking forward all their lives, and the enemy was not to be found. There was no foe to fight with.

  Frederick William Robertson

  Death, Heart, Fighting

  Frederick William Robertson (1873). “Sermons Preached at Brighton”, p.585

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• An indiscreet man is more hurtful than an ill-natured one; for as the latter will only attack his enemies, and those he wishes ill to, the other injures indifferently both friends and foes.

  Joseph Addison

  Men, Enemy, Wish

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1853). “The Spectator: With a Biographical and Critical Preface, and Explanatory Notes ...”, p.74

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• Tragedy massages the human ego even as comedy deflates it. ... Tragedy pits us against large foes and the trip wire is our own character. ... In comedy we fall afoul of one another. Comedy depends on social life, on our behavior in groups. In tragedy you can observe one human against the gods. In comedy it's one human versus other humans and often one man (or woman if I'm writing it) against her own worst impulses.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Fall, Character, Writing

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• No greater victory can be won by citizens or soldiers than to transform temporary foes into permanent friends.

  William Jennings Bryan

  Soldier, Victory, Citizens

  William Jennings Bryan (1896). “The First Battle: A Story of the Campaign of 1896”

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• ... an inaccurate use of words produces such a strange confusion in all reasoning, that in the heat of debate, the combatants, unable to distinguish their friends from their foes, fall promiscuously on both.

  Maria Edgeworth

  Fall, Confusion, Use

  Maria Edgeworth, Richard Lovell Edgeworth (1824). “Works of Maria Edgeworth: Letters to literary ladies. Castle Rackrent. Leonora. Essay on Irish bulls. 1824”, p.40

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• The cruelest foe is a masked benefactor. The wars which make history so dreary have served the cause of truth and virtue.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  War, Causes, Virtue

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2762, Delphi Classics

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• The Past is dead, and has no resurrection; but the Future is endowed with such a life, that it lives to us even in anticipation. The Past is, in many things, the foe of mankind; the Future is, in all things, our friend. In the Past is no hope; The Future is both hope and fruition. The Past is the text-book of tyrants; the Future is the Bible of the Free. Those who are solely governed by the Past stand like Lot's wife, crystallized in the act of looking backward, and forever incapable of looking before.

  Herman Melville

  Book, Past, Tyrants

  Herman Melville (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Herman Melville (Illustrated)”, p.1541, Delphi Classics

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• One would like to know, what were foes made for except to be used?

  Herman Melville

  Use, Made, Knows

  Herman Melville (2016). “Pierre; or The Ambiguities”, p.282, Herman Melville

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• As with ships, so with men; he who turns his back to his foe gives him an advantage.

  Herman Melville

  Men, Giving, Ships

  Herman Melville (1850). “White-jacket: or, The world in a man-of-war”, p.115

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• We all accuse Vladimir Putin of Cold War nostalgia, but Washington's elites - politicians and intellectuals - miss the old days as well. They wish for the world in which the United States was utterly dominant over its friends, its foes were to be shunned entirely, and the challenges were stark, moral, and vital. Today's world is messy and complicated. China is one of our biggest trading partners and our looming geopolitical rival. Russia is a surly spoiler, but it has a globalized middle class and has created ties in Europe.

  Fareed Zakaria

  Leadership, Money, War

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• If our inward griefs were written on our brows, how many who are envied now would be pitied. It would seem that they had their deadliest foe in their own breast, and their whole happiness would be reduced to mere seeming.

  Pietro Metastasio

  Happiness, Grief, Would Be

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• Our valleys may be filled with foes and tears; but we can lift our eyes to the hills to see God and the angels, heaven's spectators, who support us according to God's infinite wisdom as they prepare our welcome home.

  Billy Graham

  Home, Optimistic, Eye

  Billy Graham (1995). “Angels”, p.76, Thomas Nelson Inc

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