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- Making out an invitation list for a party brings out the worst in everyone. It is then that our most ruthless estimates of the people…
- It is not only useless, it is harmful, to believe in oneself until one truly knows oneself. And to know oneself means to accept our…
- If you want to know what a man's character is really like... ask him to tell you the living person he most admires - for…
- Why do so many people yearn for an eternal life when they don't even know what to do with themselves in this brief one?
- Ninety per cent of the world's woe comes from people not knowing themselves, their abilities, their frailties, and even their real virtues. Most of us…
- A winner knows how much he still has to learn, even when he is considered an expert by others; a loser wants to be considered…
- The generality of mankind is lazy. What distinguishes men of genuine achievement from the rest of us is not so much their intellectual powers and…
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