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"If you have work to do, don't wait to feel like it; set to work and you will feel like it."
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"Be on time! If you have a 15-minute appointment-keep it at fifteen minutes unless there is mutual agreement to continue."

"Focus on your work. Do what you're great at. Don't compare yourself to others and or waste time criticizing the lives and work of others. Do what matters most to you and make a difference doing that."

"Do not indulge your weaknesses!"

"Why so eager to jump in and direct someone else's life when you can't stick to your own goals and resolutions?"

"The first person you have to conquer is you. This is because when at last you win over million people, the first person to bring you down could be you. Discipline yourself!"

"Growing nails breaks all conducts (aachar). When one conduct breaks, it breaks all other conducts."

"Furnishing was not a priority in the Citadel. Shelves, stools, tables... There was a rumor among the novices that priests towards the top of the hierarchy had golden furniture, but there was no sign of it here. The room was as severe as anything in the novices' quarters although it had, perhaps, a more opulent severity; it wasn't the forced bareness of poverty, but the starkness of intent."

"Only a changed person can live according to the law."

"Of all the forces in the universe, the hardest to overcome is the force of habit."
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"Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language."

"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."

"It is, I think, an indisputable fact that Americans are, as Americans, the most self-conscious people in the world, and the most addicted to the belief that the other nations of the earth are in a conspiracy to under value them."

"Young men of this class never do anything for themselves that they can get other people to do for them, and it is the infatuation, the devotion, the superstition of others that keeps them going. These others in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred are women."
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