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Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the community to which your later work belongs.
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Never resist a sentence you like, in which language takes its own pleasure and in which, after having abused it for so long, you are stupefied by its innocence.
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Never seem more learned than the people you are with. Wear your learning like a pocket watch and keep it hidden. Do not pull it out to count the hours, but give the time when you are asked.
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Never seem wiser, nor more learned, than the people you are with. Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private pocket: and do not merely pull it out and strike it; merely to show that you have one.
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Never speak of yourself to others; make them talk about themselves instead; therein lies the whole art of pleasing. Everybody knows it, and everyone forgets it.
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Never suffer youth to be an excuse for inadequacy, nor age and fame to be an excuse for indolence.
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Never support two weaknesses at the same time. It's your combination sinners - your lecherous liars and your miserly drunkards - who dishonor the vices and bring them into bad repute.
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Never take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
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Never talk for half a minute without pausing and giving others a chance to join in.
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Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
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Never the time and the place and the loved one all together!
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Never try to fool children, they expect nothing, and therefore see everything.
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Never try to reason the prejudice out of a man. It was not reasoned into him, and cannot be reasoned out.
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Never try to say something remarkable. It is sure to be wrong.
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Never walk away from failure. On the contrary, study it carefully and imaginatively for its hidden assets.
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Never wear your best trousers when you go out to fight for freedom and truth.
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Never, my dear Sir, do you take it into your head that I do not love you; you may settle yourself in full confidence both of my love and my esteem; I love you as a kind man, I value you as a worthy man, and hope in time to reverence you as a man of exemplary piety.
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New flood maps in many states have raised the estimation of flood risks along rivers, streams and oceans, adding many properties to flood zones for the first time.
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