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Famous quotes containing the words gain and/or blood:

“Do not gain basely; base gain is equal to ruin.”
—Hesiod (c. 8th century B.C.)

“It is a strange, strange fate, and now, as I stand face to face with death I feel just as if they were going to kill a boy. For I feel like a boy—and my hands so free from blood and my heart always so compassionate and pitiful that I cannot comprehend how anyone wants to hang me.”
—Roger Casement (1864–1916)