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Friendship often ends in love, but love in friendship - never.
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We cannot think too highly of our nature, nor too humbly of ourselves.
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Subtract from the great man all that he owes to opportunity, all that he owes to chance, and all that he gained…
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Early rising not only gives us more life in the same number of years, but adds, likewise, to their number; and not…
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Ambition is to the mind what the cap is to the falcon; it blinds us first, and then compels us to tower…
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There is this paradox in pride - it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so.
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Of all the marvelous works of God, perhaps the one angels view with the most supreme astonishment, is a proud man.
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To despise our own species is the price we must often pay for knowledge of it.
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Pride requires very costly food-its keeper's happiness.
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Pride, like the magnet, constantly points to one object, self; but, unlike the magnet, it has no attractive pole, but at all…
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We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine, but if defer tasting them…
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Opinions, like showers, are generated in high places, but they invariably descend into lower ones, and ultimately flow down to the people…
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How do cultures differ from one another? Above all, in their customs. Tell me how you dress, how you act, what are…
— Ryszard Kapuscinski
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Men will sooner surrender their rights than their customs.
— Unknown Author
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What separates or unites people is not their language, their laws, their customs, their principles, but the way they hold their knife…
— Irene Nemirovsky
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We do not need to understand other people and their customs fully to interact with them and learn in the process; it…
— Mary Catherine Bateson
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As generations come and go, Their arts, their customs, ebb and flow; Fate, fortune, sweep strong powers away, And feeble, of themselves,…
— William Wordsworth
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Those who visit foreign nations, but associate only with their own country-men, change their climate, but not their customs. They see new…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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But change proves that you are still alive. Change often measures our tolerance for folk different from ourselves. Can we accept their…
— Robin Hobb
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I’m not used to girls, or familiar with their customs. I feel awkward around them, I don’t know what to say. I…
— Margaret Atwood
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