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By sowing frugality we reap liberty, a golden harvest. - [Frugality] I have head the nightingale herself. - when asked to listed to a man imitate the nightingale, see Plutarch's "Life of Agesilaus" [Nightingales] I shall show that the place does not honor the man, but the man the place. - [Station] If I have done any honorable exploit, that is my monument; but if I have done none, all your statues will signify nothing. - [Monuments] Valor would cease to be a virtue, if there were no injustice. - [Valor] To one commending an orator for his skill in amplifying petty matters, Agesilaus said: "I do not think that shoemaker a good workman that makes a great shoe for a little foot." - Laconic Apophthegemns [Shoemaking]
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