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A man is lucky if he is the first love of a woman. A woman is lucky if she is the last love of a man.
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Attitude is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than what people do or say. It is more important than appearance, giftedness, or skill.
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Deliberate with caution, but act with decision; and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness.
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Kings govern by popular assemblies only when they cannot do without them.
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Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.
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There are in every man, always, two simultaneous allegiances, one to God, the other to Satan. Invocation of God, or Spirituality, is a desire to climb higher; that of Satan, or animality, is delight in descent.
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A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you, and were helped by you, will remember you when forget-me-nots are withered. Carve your name on hearts, and not on marble
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Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you temperance and self-control, diligence and strength of will, cheerfulness and content, and a hundred virtues which the idle will never know.
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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.
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Bigotry murders religion to frighten fools with her ghost.
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Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen. Like friends, too, we should return to them again and again for, like true friends, they will never fail us - never cease to instruct - never cloy.
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By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he's wrong.
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Corruption is like a ball of snow, once it's set a rolling it must increase.
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Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom.
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Each man can learn something from his neighbour, at least he can learn this, to have patience with his neighbour, to live and let live.
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Genius is an infinite capacity for overcoming the opposition of mediocrities.
The maxims of Marmaduke -
Grant graciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannot conquer.
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