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— Marcus Tullius Cicero"Let arms yield to the toga, let the [victor's] laurel yield to the [orator's] tongue."
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When the course of events shall have removed you to distant scenes of action where laurels not nurtured with the blood of my country may be gathered, I shall urge sincere prayers for your obtaining every honor and preferment which may gladden the heart of a soldier.
— Thomas Jefferson
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The popular scientific books by our scientists aren't the outcome of hard work, but are written when they are resting on their laurels.
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