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Discretion in speech is more than eloquence.
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Discretion of speech is more than eloquence, and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in good words, or in good order.
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Disparity in age seems a greater obstacle to an intimate friendship than inequality of fortune.
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Division has done more to hide Christ from the view of all men than all the infidelity that has ever been spoken.
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Do a little bit more than average and from that point on our progress multiplies itself out of all proportion to the effort put in.
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Do anything rather than give yourself to reverie.
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Do awards change careers? Well, I haven't heard of many stories where that's the case. It's a fun excuse to meet colleagues and celebrate people who've done well that year in certain people's eyes, and it's nothing more than that.
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Do I catch flak because I'm so much smarter than everyone else? I don't know.
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Do more than you are being paid to do, and you'll eventually be paid more for what you do.
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Do not breed. Nothing gives less pleasure than childbearing. Pregnancies are damaging to health, spoil the figure, wither the charms, and it's the cloud of uncertainty forever hanging over these events that darkens a husband's mood.
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Do not discourage your children from hoarding, if they have a taste to it; whoever lays up his penny rather than part with it for a cake, at least is not the slave of gross appetite; and shows besides a preference always to be esteemed, of the future to the present moment.
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Do not learn more than you absolutely need to get through life.
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Do not tell me of my obligation to put all poor men in good situations. Are they my poor? I tell thee, thou foolish philanthropist, that I grudge the dollar, the dime, the cent, I give to such men as do not belong to me and to whom I do not belong.
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Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.
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Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law.
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Do what you say you're going to do. And try to do it a little better than you said you would.
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Doctors will have more lives to answer for in the next world than even we generals.
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Does not the very word 'creative' mean to build, to initiate, to give out, to act - rather than to be acted upon, to be subjective? Living photography is positive in its approach, it sings a song of life - not death.
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Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
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Don't buy a single vote more than necessary. I'll be damned if I'm going to pay for a landslide.
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