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" The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy. "

Robert Louis Stevenson

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" When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward, I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine. "

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