My observation is that whenever one person is found adequate to the discharge of a duty... it is worse executed by two persons, and scarcely done at all if three or more are employed therein.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
We all know our duty better than we discharge it.
We have, all of us, our duties. Every action of our lives, and every word that we utter, will either conduce to or detract from the discharge of our duty.
Duty is too often what one expects from others and not what one does.
In the discharge of the duties of this office, there is one rule of action more important than all others. It consists in never doing anything that someone else can do for you.
The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.
I know of only one duty, and that is to love.
Every duty is a charge, but the charge of oneself is the root of all others.
The worst of doing one's duty was that it apparently unfitted one for doing anything else.
I know there were many good policemen who died doing their duty. Some of the cops were even friends of ours. But a cop can go both ways.
If we are striving, if we are working, if we are trying, to the best of our ability, to improve day by day, then we are in the line of our duty.
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