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"Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity, than straightforward and simple integrity in another."
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"A man should be careful never to tell tales of himself to his own disadvantage. People may be amused at the time but they will be remembered and brought out against him upon some subsequent occasion."
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"Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion."
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"I said what I said before Congress because I meant every word of it."
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"Never promise more than you can perform."
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"When you take the high road to living a virtuous life, you are fortified by knowing that regardless of what life throws your way or what storms may rage, you are grounded in goodness. In this, you secure not only your own integrity, but you secure it in the eyes others."
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"A person never rise by pulling others down."
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"True respect respects all men, it values all people."
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"Fight honorably, win honorably, and lose honorably. To fail honorably is betterthan to succeed dishonorably."
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"Do not deceive yourself."
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"We should be able to refuse enchanting proposals and opportunities, if they contradict God's principles."
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"Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity."
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"Mystery is not profoundness."
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"If we steal thoughts from the moderns, it will be cried down as plagiarism; if from the ancients, it will be cried up as erudition."
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"Our income are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and trip."
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"Justice to my readers compels me to admit that I write because I have nothing to do; justice to myself induces me to add that I will cease to write the moment I have nothing to say."
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"The drafts which true genius draws upon posterity, although they may not always be honored so soon as they are due, are sure to be paid with compound interest in the end."
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"It is always safe to learn, even from our enemies; seldom safe to venture to instruct, even our friends."
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"No company is preferable to bad. We are more apt to catch the vices of others than virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health."
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"To know a man, observe how he wins his object, rather than how he loses it; for when we fail, our pride supports us - when we succeed, it betrays us."
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"The society of dead authors has this advantage over that of the living: they never flatter us to our faces, nor slander us behind our backs, nor intrude upon our privacy, nor quit their shelves until we take them down."
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