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"Our behavior to ordinary people depicts our actual nature."
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Personal Development
"The beauty of the soul is wrapped in modest fashion."
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Personal Development
"I don't think of myself as a character actress - that's become a phrase which means you've had it."
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"It is better to be gentle than rude."
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Personal Development
"Developing a true and solid character and finding unique traits that belong to only you is a foundational thing."
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Personal Development
"The kindest mind is the most beautiful mind!"
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Personal Development
"Character that is fruit-producing can be summed up in the mastery of these 5 qualities: morals, but a sense of humor; love, but respect for criticism; intelligence without pretense; humility without self-loathing; and a mind open, but with solid convictions."
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"Be the type of man a wife would cherish and a child would admire."
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"Do not imagine that if you meet a really humble man he will be what most people call 'humble' nowadays: he will not be a sort of greasy, smarmy person, who is always telling you that, of course, he is nobody.Probably all you will think about him is that he seemed a cheerful, intelligent chap who took a real interest in what you said to him.If you do dislike him it will be because you feel a little envious of anyone who seems to enjoy life so easily. He will not be thinking about humility: he will not be thinking about himself at all."
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"A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents."
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"Temple was a man of the world amongst men of letters, a man of letters amongst men of the world."
Man
"I shall not be satisfied unless I produce something which shall for a few days supersede the last fashionable novel on the tables of young ladies."
Ambition
"To sum up the whole, we should say that the aim of the Platonic philosophy was to exalt man into a god."
God
"There is only one cure for the evils which newly acquired freedom produces, and that cure is freedom."
Cure
"The puritan hated bear baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators."
Pain
"Reform, that we may preserve."
Reform
"Few of the many wise apothegms which have been uttered have prevented a single foolish action."
Action
"Such night in England ne'er had been, nor ne'er again shall be."
History
"People crushed by law have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws."
Power
"I would rather be poor in a cottage full of books than a king without the desire to read."
Books
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