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Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end.
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Advice is sometimes transmitted more successfully through a joke than grave teaching.
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Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
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Aim at perfection in everything, though in most things it is unattainable. However, they who aim at it, and persevere, will come much nearer to it than those whose laziness and despondency make them give it up as unattainable.
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All animals are created equal, but some are more equal than others.
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All I want is a little more than I’ll ever get.
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All too often, academic departments defend their territory with the passion of cornered animals, though with far less justification.
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Already we Viewers, when not viewing, have begun to whisper to one another that the more we elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate.
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Always render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be.
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An education obtained with money is worse than no education at all
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An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of his own dear person.
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And the high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule, or to impose himself in any other way.
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Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass.
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Arrogance on the part of the meritorious is even more offensive to us than the arrogance of those without merit: for merit itself is offensive.
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As a rule, men worry more about what they can't see than about what they can.
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As for begging, it is safer to beg than to take, but it is finer to take than to beg.
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Be more concerned with your character than your reputation.
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Be more dedicated to making solid achievements than in running after swift but synthetic happiness.
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Be wary of insisting that you know better than God about when a prayer request should be granted. God's delays are not necessarily denials. He always has reasons for his 'not yets.
Too Busy Not to Pray
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