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"Will was not without his intentions to be always generous, but our tongues are little triggers which have usually been pulled before general intentions can be brought to bear."
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"I had no expectation that the Prince would offer me the unprecedented and unfettered access to the original and entirely untapped sources on which this biography is based."

"Know the other person's viewpoint first and then talk. To Talk after comparing it or mixing it with our viewpoint is an offence."

"Never speak unless you can improve upon the stupidness of people's silence."

"A bad handwriting is as annoying to a reader - as an irritating voice is to a listener."

"Not every single way of saying the right thing is right."

"Are you being approachable when you are around new people? Ever not know what to say? Simply smile when you make eye contact. This is a subliminal invitation to help others feel safe-allowing a conversation to follow naturally."

"Few realize how loud their expressions really are. Be kind with what you wordlessly say."

"Human life is not for suffering criticism. If it is the truth and there is no nagging or insistence upon it, others will accept it in their hearts. And if it is the truth and you nag or insist upon it, it will not touch others."

"A good oration is good and a good understanding is better, but a good action in the right direction that gets the best results is the best!"
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"He was unique to her among men because he's impressed her as being not her admirer her superior. In some mysterious way he was becoming a part of her conscience as one woman who's nature is an object of reverential belief may become a new conscience to a man."

"In so complex a thing as human nature, we must consider, it is hard to find rules without exception."

"And when a woman's will is as strong as the man's who wants to govern her, half her strength must be concealment."

"A toddling little girl is a centre of common feeling which makes the most dissimilar people understand each other."

"Life is measured by the rapidity of change the succession of influences that modify the being."

"The sense of security more frequently springs from habit than from conviction, and for this reason it oftensubsists after such a change in the conditions as might have been expected to suggest alarm. The lapse of time during which a given event has not happened, is, in this logic of habit, constantly alleged as a reason why the event should never happen, even when the lapse of time is precisely the added condition which makes the event imminent."

"I suppose it was that in courtship everything is regarded as provisional and preliminary, and the smallest sample of virtue or accomplishment is taken to guarantee delightful stores which the broad leisure of marriage will reveal. But the door-sill of marriage once crossed, expectation is concentrated on the present. Having once embarked on your marital voyage, it is impossible not to be aware that you make no way and that the sea is not within sight-that, in fact, you are exploring an enclosed basin."

"What destroys us most effectively is not a malign fate but our own capacity for self-deception and for degrading our own best self."
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