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  1. Their judgment was based more upon blind wishing than upon any sound prevision; for it is a habit of mankind to entrust to careless hope what they long for, an…

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  2. Hope, that comforter in danger!

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  3. We must march against the enemy, and teach him that he must go and get what he wants by attacking someone who will not resist him, but that men whose glory it …

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