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"Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own."
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"Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind."

"Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to their tremendous difficulties."

"People talk about the courage of condemned men walking to the place of execution: sometimes it needs as much courage to walk with any kind of bearing towards another person's habitual misery."

"Though bachelors be the strongest stakes, married men are the best binders, in the hedge of the commonwealth."

"There have been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them."
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"But whether the risks to which liberty exposes us are moral or physical our right to liberty involves the right to run them. A man who is not free to risk his neck as an aviator or his soul as a heretic is not free at all; and the right to liberty begins, not at the age of 21 years but 21 seconds."

"People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them."

"The man with toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound.The poverty stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man."

"Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world."

"The weak may not be admired and hero-worshipped; but they are by no means disliked or shunned; and they never seem to have the least difficulty in marrying people who are too good for them. They may fail in emergencies; but life is not one long emergency: it is mostly a string of situations for which no exceptional strength is needed, and with which even rather weak people can cope if they have a stronger partner to help them out."

"A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it."

"My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity."

"Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds, cannot change anything."
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