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"One of the characteristics of humility is the ability to take the second place without striving for self-promotion."

"The more success a person has in life, the greater the danger of fornication can become."

"If you know how it's to be treated unfairly, you will be gentle with others."

"Don't marry the most beautiful woman in the world, marry the woman with the most beautiful deeds."

"Character is what the world needs - character that will empower the mind with such an unimaginable strength that one would meet death face to face and say "some other time, pal!"

"Failures make character, not success."
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"A man in my situation, my lords, has not only to encounter the difficulties of fortune. and the force of power over minds which it has corrupted or subjugated. but the difficulties of established prejudice: the man dies, but his memory lives."


"I have much to say why my reputation should be rescued from the load of false accusation and calumny which has been heaped upon it."


"Let there be no inscription upon my tomb; let no man write my epitaph: no man can write my epitaph."


"Let no man write my epitaph... When my country takes her place among the nations of the earth, then shall my character be vindicated, then may my epitaph be written."
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