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But I am a just man, even to my enemy - and I will acknowledge, beforehand, that they are cleverer brains than…
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It is one of my rules in life, never to notice what I don't understand.
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Not the shadow of a doubt crossed my mind of the purpose for which the Count had left the theatre. His escape…
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I am a citizen of the world, and I have met, in my time, with so many different sorts of virtue, that…
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I am not against hasty marriages where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.
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Men ruin themselves headlong for unworthy women.
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The future of English fiction may rest with this Unknown Public - a reading public of three millions which lies right out…
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We neither know nor judge ourselves; others may judge, but cannot know us. God alone judges and knows us.
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The horrid mystery hanging over us in this house gets into my head like liquor, and makes me wild.
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I haven't much time to be fond of anything ... but when I have a moment's fondness to bestow, most times ...…
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I have heard, as everybody else has, of a spirit's haunting a house ; but I have had my own personal experience…
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I haven't much time to be fond of anything . . . But when I have a moment's fondness to bestow, most…
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I am, indeed, a king, because I know how to rule myself.
— Pietro Aretino
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I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.
— Aristotle
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Tell him, on the contrary, that he needs, in the interest of his own happiness, to walk in the path of humility…
— Irving Babbitt
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Punishment may make us obey the orders we are given, but at best it will only teach an obedience to authority, not…
— Bruno Bettelheim
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Saudi Arabia operates according to the belief that God made young men and women so utterly and completely without self-control that they…
— James Buchan
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There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.
— Chanakya
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Discipline and concentration are a matter of being interested.
— Tom Kite
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Prudent, cautious self-control is wisdom's root.
— Robert Burns
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Let's ask God to help us to self-control for one who lacks it, lacks his grace.
— Rumi
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As a tennis player you can win and you can lose, and you have to be ready for both. I practised self-control…
— Rafael Nadal
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I hate exercising self-control.
— Kate Upton
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God is waiting eagerly to respond with new strength to each little act of self-control, small disciplines of prayer, feeble searching after…
— Richard Holloway
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