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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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"The most difficult character in comedy is that of the fool, and he must be no simpleton that plays that part."
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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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"There are people who possess not so much genius as a certain talent for perceiving the desires of the century, or even of the decade, before it has done so itself."
Talent
"Just as we outgrow a pair of trousers, we outgrow acquaintances, libraries, principles, etc., at times before they're worn out and times - and this is the worst of all - before we have new ones."
Libraries
"The American who first discovered Columbus made a bad discovery."
American
"There is no greater impediment to progress in the sciences than the desire to see it take place too quickly."
Progress
"He who says he hates every kind of flattery, and says it in earnest, certainly does not yet know every kind of flattery."
Flattery
"When an acquaintance goes by I often step back from my window, not so much to spare him the effort of acknowledging me as to spare myself the embarrassment of seeing that he has not done so."
Acquaintance
"Every man has his moral backside which he refrains from showing unless he has to and keeps covered as long as possible with the trousers of decorum."
Man
"We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already."
Wisdom
"God created man in His own image, says the Bible; philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs."
God
"To err is human also in so far as animals seldom or never err, or at least only the cleverest of them do so."
Animals
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