"Most of the significant contributions that have..." - Quote by Winston Churchill
Most of the significant contributions that have been made to society have been made by people who were tired.
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“I drink a great deal. I sleep a little, and I smoke cigar after cigar. That is why I am in two-hundred-percent form.”
“If this long island story of ours is to end at last, let it end only when each one of us lies, choking in his own blood upon the ground.”
“By swallowing evil words unsaid, no one has ever harmed his stomach.”
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“She kept up her compliments, and I kept up my determination to deserve them or die.”
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“He is a man of courage who does not run away, but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.”
“Fare well we call to hearth and hall Though wind may blow and rain may fall We must away ere break of day Over the wood and mountain tall To Rivendell where Elves yet dwell In glades beneath the misty fell Through moor and waste we ride in haste And wither then we cannot tell With foes ahead behind us dread Beneath the sky shall be our bed Until at last our toil be sped Our journey done, our errand sped We must away! We must away! We ride before the break of day!”