Vicious habits are so odious and degrading that they transform the individual who practices them into an incarnate … - Marcus Tullius Cicero

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All the laws made for the betterment of workers' lives have their origin with the workers. Hours are shortened,wages go up, conditions are better----only if the workers protest

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Vicious habits are so odious and degrading that they transform the individual who practices them into an incarnate demon.

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Whatever is graceful is virtuous, and whatever is virtuous is graceful.

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A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself.

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More is lost by indecision than wrong decision. Indecision is the thief of opportunity. It will steal you blind.

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