They didn't panic. Down 3-0 and 4-1, they still found a way to claw back. They deserve all the credit in the world because they stuck to the game plan and never wavered.


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Good breeding differs, if at all, from high breeding only as it gracefully remembers the rights of o...
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No conquest can ever become permanent which does not show itself beneficial to the conquered as well...
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Variety is the condition of harmony.
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I don't pretend to understand the Universe -- it's a great deal bigger than I am.
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Men's hearts ought not to be set against one another, but set with one another, and all against evil...
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No person was every rightly understood until they had been first regarded with a certain feeling, no...
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The world is a republic of mediocrities, and always was.
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It is a mathematical fact that the casting of this pebble from my hand alters the centre of gravity ...
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For man is not the creature and product of Mechanism; but, in a far truer sense, its creator and pro...
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Isolation is the sum total of wretchedness to a man.
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Let each become all that he was created capable of being.
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The condition of the most passionate enthusiast is to be preferred over the individual who, because ...
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If there be no enemy there's no fight. If no fight, no victory and if no victory there is no crown.
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The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.
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Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.
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Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.
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Clever men are good, but they are not the best.
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Pin your faith to no ones sleeves, haven't you two eyes of your own.
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I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
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The actual well seen is ideal.
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Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.
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For the superior morality, of which we hear so much, we too would desire to be thankful: at the same...
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The eternal stars shine out as soon as it is dark enough.
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The depth of our despair measures what capability and height of claim we have to hope.
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The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak becomes a stepping-stone in th...
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There are but two ways of paying debt: Increase of industry in raising income, increase of thrift in...
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Sarcasm I now see to be, in general, the language of the devil; for which reason I have long since a...
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The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconsciou...
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Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can ...
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Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.
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History is the distillation of rumor.
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Stern accuracy in inquiring, bold imagination in describing, these are the cogs on which history soa...
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Heroism is the divine relation which, in all times, unites a great man to other men.
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Hero-worship is the deepest root of all; the tap-root, from which in a great degree all the rest wer...
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All sorts of Heroes are intrinsically of the same material; that given a great soul, open to the Div...
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The hell of these days is the fear of not getting along, especially of not making money.
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The heart always sees before than the head can see.
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Ill-health, of body or of mind, is defeat. Health alone is victory. Let all men, if they can manage ...
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A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
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