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"When you are offended at any man's fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger."
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"It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you, but your opinion that these things are insulting."
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"And where there is ignorance, there is also want of learning and instruction in essentials."
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