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"As he stood there lost in reflection, Auclair thought he seemed more like a man revolving plans for a new struggle with fortune than one looking back upon a life of brilliant features. The Count had the bearing of a fencer when he takes up the foil; from his shoulders to his heels there was intention and direction. His carriage was his unconscious idea of himself, - it was an armour he put on when he took off his night-cap in the morning, and he wore it all day, at early mass, at his desk, on the march, at the Council, at his dinner-table. Even his enemies relied upon his strength."
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"It's easier to maintain a good character than to recover it when it's gone bad!"

"To become a better you, never let the attitude of pride linger around your ambitions."

"Do not waste your anger, you may just be the candidate to deliver a people from oppression or injustice."

"Service introduces you to the leadership throne. Service to mankind is the vision on which leadership is mounted. You serve and in your service, you train more leaders by becoming an example!"

"Disappointment and Depression are terrorists that kidnap people's original peace for no good reason. The Holy Spirit of God is a dependable army to drive them away! May you be free from being disappointed and depressed. May you have and share peace as long as you live!"

"Before someone will get the guts to monitor your life, he must get the keyboard of humility. To be a humble person, is a priority in leadership!"

"You can't be a self-leader if you are an enemy to yourself. Stop the hatred and love yourself."

"The wisdom to be on the throne of one's life must surpass the wisdom of the one being ruled, otherwise I will squander the whole of my life in the most appalling ways. By virtue of that reality, I would be wise to get out of the chair and invite God to have a seat."

"The courageous attitudes of leaders ramble around coward followers and sooner or later, they become courageous too!"

"Leaders will love to be poor and see their people rich, than to be rich and see their people poor. This is their mission."
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"Desire is creation, is the magical element in that process. If there were an instrument by which to measure desire, one could foretell achievement."


"To note an artist's limitations is but to define his talent. A reporter can write equally well about everything that is presented to his view, but a creative writer can do his best only with what lies within the range and character of his deepest sympathies."


"Of all the bewildering things about a new country, the absence of human landmarks is one of the most depressing and disheartening."


"As in most families, the mere struggle to have anything of one's own, to be one's self at all, creates an element of strain that keeps everybody almost at the breaking point."


"And I advise ye to think well, he told her It's better to be a stray dog in this world than a man without money. I've tried it both ways, and I know. A poor man stinks, and God hates him."


"The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. When it flung wide its cloak and stepped down over the edge of the fields at evening, it left behind it a spent and exhausted world."


"Either a building is part of a place or it is not. Once that kinship is there, time will only make it stronger."
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