"If it is necessary sometimes to lie to others, it is always despicable to lie to oneself."

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"If it is necessary sometimes to lie to others, it is always despicable to lie to oneself."

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"It is not easy to keep silent when silence is a lie."

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"It's good to let God pick a man for you. We don't do so well when we pick them ourselves. They end up lipsticks in a drawer, all those wrong colors you thought looked so good in the package."

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"There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous."

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"Your integrity may disgrace your pride at the time you don't think but that doesnt mean you should stop. You'll have to accept and move on with your life in the way it is."

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"Believe be and strong enough in virtues like character, faithfulness, hard work, dignity of labor, diligence, excellence, perseverance, truth, responsibility, delayed gratification, contentment, trust, integrity and stop looking for miracles."

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"If you are a finger, your honesty is the hand to make your existence worth living."

Munia Khan, Bangladeshi Poet

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"And the poor lady, so small in her black satin, shrivelled up and sallow, with her funny corkscrew curls, took the little boy on her lap and put her arms around him and wept as though her heart would break. But her tears were partly tears of happiness, for she felt that the strangeness between them was gone. She loved him now with a new love because he had made her suffer."

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"I'll give you my opinion of the human race in a nutshell... their heart's in the right place, but their head is a thoroughly inefficient organ."

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