Duty
“The Republican Guard has a popularity which exceeds the borders,” it contributes “to the prestige of the French Army and France.” (Minister for Defense, October 2002)
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Famous quotes containing the word duty:
“Never anything can be amiss
When simpleness and duty tender it.”
—William Shakespeare (15641616)
“I perceived that to express those impressions, to write that essential book, which is the only true one, a great writer does not, in the current meaning of the word, invent it, but, since it exists already in each one of us, interprets it. The duty and the task of a writer are those of an interpreter.”
—Marcel Proust (18711922)
“Tis a sort of duty to be rich, that it may be in ones power to do good, riches being another word for power.”
—Mary Wortley, Lady Montagu (16891762)