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— Ralph Waldo Emerson"The only compensation which war offers for its manifold mischiefs, is in the great personal qualities to which it gives scope and occasion."
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In constitutional states, liberty is compensation for heavy taxes; in dictatorships, the subsititue is light taxes.
— Baron de Montesquieu
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Many old people receive pensions for no other reason, it seems to me, but as a compensation for having lived a long time ago.
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