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• O be very sure That no man will learn anything at all, Unless he first will learn humility.
• To dispense with ceremony is the most delicate mode of conferring a compliment.
• I did not fall into love - I rose into love.
• There is no such thing as luck. It's a fancy name for being always at our duty, and so sure to be…
• Man must be disappointed with the lesser things of life before he can comprehend the full value of the greater.
• Say what we will, we may be sure that ambition is an error. Its wear and tear on the heart are never…
• The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning it.
• The conscience is the most flexible material in the world. Today you cannot stretch it over a mole hill; while tomorrow it…
• The prudent person may direct a state, but it is the enthusiast who regenerates or ruins it
• Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity and truth accomplishes no victories without it
• If you wish to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues.
• When a person is down in the world, an ounce of help is better than a pound of preaching.

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