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"A house may draw visitors but it is the possessor alone that can detain them."
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"Don't you love meeting an approachable person? They roll out the proverbial "welcome mat. Their energy and engaging openness make us feel safe. They project the messages, "I'm so glad to meet you. I like you. Tell me more about you. I'm so glad that you're here, without even saying a word."
"This being human is a guest house. Every morning is a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness comes as an unexpected visitor...Welcome and entertain them all. Treat each guest honorably. The dark thought, the shame, the malice, meet them at the door laughing, and invite them in. Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond."
"Unbidden guests Are often welcomest when they are gone."
"Welcome to Paris, Anna. I'm glad you've come."
"Hostess with the Mostest"Think of a time when you have had a party in your home or had friends over for dinner. Didn't you want to make sure they were nurtured, cared for, and well-taken care of? Didn't you want your guests to interact with each other and enjoy the experience so they would remember it fondly?"
"In his book, Networking is a Contact Sport, Joe Sweeney advises that when you attend networking events, act as if it is your party and you are the host or hostess. By doing this, you will help others be at ease and demonstrate a heart of service and generosity."
"House guests should be regarded as perishables: Leave them out too long and they go bad."
"Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days."
"Nobody can be as agreeable as an uninvited guest."
"I think that when you invite people to your home, you invite them to yourself."
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"He that has energy enough to root out a vice should go further, and try to plant a virtue in its place."
"There are some frauds so well conducted that it would be stupidity not to be deceived by them."
"Of present fame think little, and of future less; the praises that we receive after we are buried, like the flowers that are strewed over our grave, may be gratifying to the living, but they are nothing to the dead."
"The two most precious things this side of the grave are our reputation and our life. But it is to be lamented that the most contemptible whisper may deprive us of the one, and the weakest weapon of the other."
"Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away."
"To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread."
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