"The sight of a drunkard is a better sermon against that vice than the best that was ever preached on that subject."

Behavior, Sight, Vice

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"Behavior speaks... When you need money, the church tells you to pray. When the church needs money, they pass around a basket."

Steve Maraboli, American Author

Behavior, Prayer, Church, Money

"Ger says that Kat has a tendency to push things to extremes, to go over the edge, merely from a juvenile desire to shock, which is hardly a substitute for wit. One of these days, he says, she will go way too far. Too far for him, is what he means."

Margaret Atwood, Canadian Novelist

Behavior, Wit, Danger, Warning

"The common behavior of mankind is the system of reference by means of which we interpret an unknown language."

Ludwig Wittgenstein, Austrian Philosopher

Behavior, Language, Mankind

"Run mad as often as you choose but do not faint."

Jane Austen, British Writer

Behavior, Madness, Choice, Emotion, Restraint

"And she did what nobody thought of doing... she consulted Anne."

Jane Austen, British Writer

Behavior, Decision, Advice, Surprise, Help

"Kindness is the supreme intelligence."

Bryant McGill, American Poet

Behavior, Kindness, Intelligence, Wisdom, Power

"I can be an arrogant people If I have to, or when the situation demands me to act so.It is one way for me to make arrogance useful.So if I know not people well, I don't judge them."

Toba Beta, Indonesian Author

Behavior, Judgment, Power, Truth, Wisdom

"Most of the men had simple souls. They could relate facts, but they said very little about what they dimly felt."

Theodore Roosevelt, American President

Behavior, Observation, Truth, Humanity, Simplicity

"A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a man in fever. Just so should a wise man treat all mankind, as a physician does his patient, and look upon them only as sick and extravagant."

Seneca, Roman Philosopher

Behavior, Intemperance, Man, Mankind

"You have a habit of having an 'underhand', and that is why you get a boss. Otherwise, no one is your boss and no one is your underhand; such is the world."

Dada Bhagwan, Indian Spiritual Leader

Behavior, Truth, Wisdom, Power, Life

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"There is reason to think the most celebrated philosophers would have been bunglers at business; but the reason is because they despised it."

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"Laws are generally not understood by three sorts of persons, viz, by those who make them, by those who execute them, and by those who suffer if they break them."

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"Love is a passion that hath friends in the garrison."

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"He that leaveth nothing to chance will do few things ill, but he will do very few things."

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"When the people contend for their liberty, they seldom get anything by their victory but new masters."

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"Some men's memory is like a box where a man should mingle his jewels with his old shoes."

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"The best Qualification of a Prophet is to have a good Memory."

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"Behavior speaks... When you need money, the church tells you to pray. When the church needs money, they pass around a basket."

"Ger says that Kat has a tendency to push things to extremes, to go over the edge, merely from a juvenile desire to shock, which is hardly a substitute for wit. One of these days, he says, she will go way too far. Too far for him, is what he means."

"The common behavior of mankind is the system of reference by means of which we interpret an unknown language."

"Run mad as often as you choose but do not faint."

"And she did what nobody thought of doing... she consulted Anne."

"Kindness is the supreme intelligence."

"I can be an arrogant people If I have to, or when the situation demands me to act so.It is one way for me to make arrogance useful.So if I know not people well, I don't judge them."

"Most of the men had simple souls. They could relate facts, but they said very little about what they dimly felt."

"A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a man in fever. Just so should a wise man treat all mankind, as a physician does his patient, and look upon them only as sick and extravagant."

"You have a habit of having an 'underhand', and that is why you get a boss. Otherwise, no one is your boss and no one is your underhand; such is the world."

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"Malice is of a low stature, but it hath very long arms."

"Many men swallow the being cheated, but no man can ever endure to chew it."

"Nothing has an uglier look to us than reason, when it is not on our side."

"There is reason to think the most celebrated philosophers would have been bunglers at business; but the reason is because they despised it."

"Laws are generally not understood by three sorts of persons, viz, by those who make them, by those who execute them, and by those who suffer if they break them."

"Love is a passion that hath friends in the garrison."

"He that leaveth nothing to chance will do few things ill, but he will do very few things."

"When the people contend for their liberty, they seldom get anything by their victory but new masters."

"Some men's memory is like a box where a man should mingle his jewels with his old shoes."

"The best Qualification of a Prophet is to have a good Memory."