If you would inform, a positive and dogmatic manner in advancing your sentiments may provoke contradiction and prevent a candid attention. If you wish information and improvement from the knowledge of others, and yet at the same time express yourself as firmly fixed in your present opinions, modest, sensible men, who do not love disputation, will probably leave you undisturbed in the possession of your error.
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It takes so little to make people happy. Just a touch, If we know how to give it, just a word fitly spoken, a slight readjustment of some bolt or pin or bearing in the delicate machinery of a soul.
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Habits are safer than rules you don't have to watch them. And you don't have to keep them either. They keep you.
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Most of the things we decide are not what we know to be the best. We say yes, merely because we are driven into a corner and must say something.
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Responsibility is the thing people dread most of all. Yet it is the one thing in the world that develops us, gives us manhood or womanhood fiber.
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Your sole contribution to the sum of things is yourself.
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You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you do not trust enough.
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Most of the things we decide are not what we know to be the best. We say yes, merely because we are driven into a corner and must say somethign.
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