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"In some circumstances, the refusal to be defeated is a refusal to be educated."
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"Some persons talk simply because they think sound is more manageable than silence."
Silence
"He has the common feeling of his profession. He enjoys a statement twice as much if it appears in fine print, and anything that turns up in a footnote... takes on the character of divine revelation."
Character
"The role of a do-gooder is not what actors call a fat part."
Actor
"Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild, harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's characters."
Time
"Humility is not my forte, and whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild, harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's characters."
Time
"I was well warned about English food, so it did not surprise me, but I do wonder sometimes, how they ever manage to prise it up long enough to get a plate under it."
Food
"Bulldogs have been known to fall on their swords when confronted by my superior tenacity."
Ability
"In some circumstances, the refusal to be defeated is a refusal to be educated."
Circumstance
"The English never smash in a face. They merely refrain from asking it to dinner."
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"I do not pretend to write much of a letter. You know under what circumstances I am writing."
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Personal Development
"So often we try to alter circumstances to suit ourselves, instead of letting them alter us, which is what they are meant to do."
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Personal Development
"Don't wait for extraordinary circumstance to do good; try to use ordinary situations."
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Personal Development
"Circumstances define us; they force us onto one road or another, and then they punish us for it."
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Personal Development
"A person who can't pay gets another person who can't pay to guarantee that he can pay. Like a person with two wooden legs getting another person with two wooden legs to guarantee that he has got two natural legs. It don't make either of them able to do a walking-match."
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Personal Development
"A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes."
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Personal Development
"To know all about anything is to know how to deal with it under all circumstances."
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Personal Development
"How well Shakespeare knew how to improve and exalt little circumstances, when he borrowed them from circumstantial or vulgar historians."
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Personal Development
"I am I plus my circumstances."
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Personal Development
"I am favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it's possible."
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Personal Development
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