I came, I saw, God conquered.

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To endeavor to domineer over conscience, is to invade the citadel of heaven.

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Iron hand in a velvet glove.

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A single friar who goes counter to all Christianity for a thousand years must be wrong.

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My cousin Francis and I are in perfect accord - he wants Milan, and so do I.

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Fortune has something of the nature of a woman. If she is too intensely wooed, she commonly goes the further away.

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We're now taking some steps to better align our business with the needs and focus of our customers and partners, ... Our focus is on our business, and the community business centers will continue to serve as catalysts in their communities to expand affordable housing opportunities and to work with our customers and lenders to get more people into homes and help them remain in those homes.

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I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men and German to my horse.

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What helps luck is a habit of watching for opportunities, of having a patient, but restless mind, of sacrificing one's ease or vanity, of uniting a love of detail to foresight, and of passing through hard times bravely and cheerfully.

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Half the joy of life is in little things taken on the run... but let us keep our hearts young and our eyes open that nothing worth our while shall escape us.

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