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• Be modest, humble, simple. Control your anger.
• Life is much shorter than I imagined it to be.
• Only the other world has substance and reality; only good deeds and holy learning have tangible worth.
• God, for example, appealed to me as a beardless man wearing a quilted silk cap; holiness was something burning, forbidding, something connected…
• If you feel that you are good, don't be too proud of it.
• Above all, you must fight conceit, envy, and every kind of ill-feeling in your heart.
• He considered the Rvolution a victroy for the Jews, which opinion, he said, prevailed on the East Side where rejoicing knew no…
• If it be true that our people represent a high percentage of mental vigor, the distinction is probably due, in some measure,…
• The orthodox Jewish faith practically excludes woman from religious life.
• Remember that it is not enough to abstain from lying by word of mouth; for the worst lies are often conveyed by…
• If you study the Talmud you please God even more than you do by praying or fasting.
• If a man is tongue-tied, don't laugh at him, but, rather, feel pity for him, as you would for a man with…

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