“ Fidelity to conscience is inconsistent with retiring modesty. If it be so, let the modesty succumb. It can be only a false modesty which can be thus endangered. ”
- Harriet Martineau- Copy
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“ It is only after an unknown number of unrecorded labors, after a host of noble hearts have succumbed in discouragement, convinced that their cause is lost; it is only then that cause triumphs. ”
- Madame Guizot- Copy
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“ Often the prudent, far from making their destinies, succumb to them. ”
- Francois Marie Arouet de Voltaire- Copy
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“ You are my lover and I am your mistress and kingdoms and empires and governments have tottered and succumbed before now to that mighty combination. ”
- Violet Trefusis- Copy
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