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Every fighter is my toughest challenge to date. After I get done with one fight, the next challenge is the toughest.

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For they had learned that true safety was to be found in long previous training, and not in eloquent exhortations uttered when they were going into action.

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Most people, in fact, will not take the trouble in finding out the truth, but are much more inclined to accept the first story they hear.

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He passes through life most securely who has least reason to reproach himself with complaisance toward his enemies.

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Indeed men too often take upon themselves in the prosecution of their revenge to set the example of doing away with those general laws to which all can look for salvation in adversity, instead of allowing them to subsist against the day of danger when their aid may be required

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Men do not rest content with parrying the attacks of a superior, but often strike the first blow to prevent the attack being made.

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