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N. Cotton. . If solid happiness we prize, / Within our breast this jewel lies, / And they are fools who roam. / The world has nothing to bestow; / From our own selves our joys must flow, / And that dear hut, our home.
N. Lenau. . Pain and love are the portion of the man who does not like a coward shirk the world's destiny; if he plucks the arrow from his breast, he becomes as one dead for the world and God. - Schmerz und Liebe ist des Menschen Teil /
N. P. Willis. . For it stirs the blood in an old man's heart, / And makes his pulses fly, / To catch the thrill of a happy voice / And the light of a pleasant eye.
N. Tate. . Friendship's the privilege / Of private men.
Nachsicht . ( ); - To be able to be silent shows power; to be willing to be silent shows forbearance
Name given by Frederick the Great to his country-house at Potsdam. . 'No bother' here. - Sans Souci
Napoleon III. . 'The empire, that is peace.' - 'L'empire, c'est la paix'
Napoleon on war. . A trade of barbarians.
Napoleon to his troops in Egypt. . 'From the height of these pyramids forty centuries look down on you.'
Napoleon to his troops in Egypt. . From the height of these pyramids forty centuries look down on us. - Du haut de ces pyramides quarante siècles nous contemplent
 
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Cachinnatory : a. Consisting of, or accompanied by, immoderate laughter.

 
Based on the Dictionary of Quotations From Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources by Rev. James Woods, published originally in 1893 by Frederick Warne & Co
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