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"Infelicity is an ill to which all acts are heir which have the general character of ritual or ceremonial, all conventional acts."
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"Faithfulness to one's word is one of the principles of discipline."
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"The fact that a man is a newspaper reporter is evidence of some flaw of character."
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"Trials makes you to develop the qualities of a successful man."
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"You become a hypocrite when you can't freely be at peace with others, but you can carry green palm leaves to church to commemorate "palm Sunday"! Throw those palm leaves somewhere; and lay your life down for someone to walk on and get to the destined land!"
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"Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended."
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"I think all the heretics I have known have been virtuous men. They have the virtue of fortitude, or they would not venture to own their heresy; and they cannot afford to be deficient in any of the other virtues, as they would give advantage to their many enemies; and they have not, like orthodox sinners, such a number of friends to excuse or justify them."
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"If stupidity were a gift, only a few would have it."
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"Bear in mind that humility is not timidity."
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"The people of great value are the people who have a noble inner man."
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"When I say "no" to some activities that I believe are ungodly, some people say I am "nobody". Yes, I agree", "no" body; that's who I am. I am a "body" that can say "no" to bad attitudes!"
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"Certainly ordinary language has no claim to be the last word, if there is such a thing."
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"In the one defence, briefly, we accept responsibility but deny that it was bad: in the other, we admit that it was bad but don't accept full, or even any, responsibility."
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"There are more ways of outraging speech than contradiction merely."
Language
"Infelicity is an ill to which all acts are heir which have the general character of ritual or ceremonial, all conventional acts."
Character
"Going back into the history of a word, very often into Latin, we come back pretty commonly to pictures or models of how things happen or are done."
History
"Usually it is uses of words, not words in themselves, that are properly called vague."
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"But I owe it to the subject to say, that it has long afforded me what philosophy is so often thought, and made, barren of - the fun of discovery, the pleasures of co-operation, and the satisfaction of reaching agreement."
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