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Behavior Quotes
"Cruel people offer pity when they no longer feel threatened. However, kind people offer compassion and understanding regardless."
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"People love to read about sins and errors, but not their own."
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"That's the problem with drinking, I thought, as I poured myself a drink. If something bad happens you drink in an attempt to forget; if something good happens you drink in order to celebrate; and if nothing happens you drink to make something happen."
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"He was rather a low sort of pony. The fact is, he had been originally jobbed out by the day, and he never quite got over his old habits. He was clever in melodrama too, but too broad--too broad. When the mother died, he took the port-wine business.''The port-wine business!' cried Nicholas.'Drinking port-wine with the clown,' said the manager; 'but he was greedy, and one night bit off the bowl of the glass, and choked himself, so his vulgarity was the death of him at last."
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"Behavior which appears superficially correct but is intrinsically corrupt always irritates those who see below the surface."
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"He lived on, miserable and misunderstood, as before, and increasingly lonely. One cannot write those words too often: Maurice's loneliness: it increased."
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"Acceptable hypocrisy is often called politeness."
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"What is he to learn? To imitate? Or to avoid? When your friends the bees worry themselves about their sovereign, and become perfectly distracted touching the slightest monarchical movement, are we men to learn the greatness of Tuft-hunting, or the littleness of the Court Circular? I am not clear, Mr. Boffin, but that the hive may be satirical.'At all events, they work,' said Mr. Boffin.Ye-es,' returned Eugene, disparagingly, 'they work; but don't you think they overdo it?"
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"Others behavior towards us is a reflection of our own behavior, it's a MIRROR."
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"I rather mistrust young men who slip into life gracefully."
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"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."
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"Pride and folly, they go together like two tightly grasping hands."
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"But the vain man did not hear him. Vain men never hear anything but praise."
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"Survival," I said softly. "It's selfish, and it's dark, and we've always been a species willing to do anything to satisfy our needs. Individuals have morals. Mobs have appetites."
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"If they do it often, it isn't a mistake; it's just their behavior."
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"Most of the men had simple souls. They could relate facts, but they said very little about what they dimly felt."
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"I've learned to get really good at this - say one thing when I'm thinking about something else, act like I'm listening when I'm not, pretend to be calm and happy when I'm really freaking out. It's one of the skills you perfect as you get older."
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"Man alone suffers so excruciatingly in the world that he was compelled to invent laughter."
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"Guard your heart and mind against double-minded pretentious beings. Do not allow infiltration beyond the surface. If their influence travels on the inside, they become like an incurable disease."
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"If the announcer can produce the impression that he is a gentleman he may pronounce as he pleases."
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"One is said to be enlightened with the Right Knowledge when his conduct is appropriate in any situation."
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"Most people, in my opinion, steal much of what they are. If they didn't what poor items they would be."
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"It is through these facial expressions that we write and feel our life story, create lifelong social habits-through which we are received and perceived by a multitude of others. When you want to make a positive first impression, let your face know!"
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"The laziness of adolescence is a rehearsal for the incapacity of old age."
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"I lay it down as a fact that if all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world."
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"Often a woman that doesn't have any business being in a fight is there because their ego thinks it can mend what other people can't. It's either superiority or a second chance to heal a wound they have, by meddling on your battlefield."
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"One thing I have discovered since I've been ill, though, is that nobody ever knows anybody, and maybe least of all the people who are closest to them. Sort of a business of not being able to see the trees for the woods. We all live in isolated prisons of our own bodies and there's no real contact with any other human being. That's what sex is, in a way, isn't it, a desperate striving for contact? With which cheerful Thought for Today, I will bid you good afternoon."
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"Oh, oh human stupidity, probably that's why I don't succeed with mankind, somebody says "Can I stop by?" you answer "Okay..." or "Sure""... but why and saying what you are doing in case he hasn't asked you?"
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"That, in my opinion, was the most diabolical aspect of those old time big brains. They would tell their owners, in effect, 'Here is a crazy thing we could actually do, probably, but we would never do it, of course, it's just fun to think about.'And then, as though in trances, the people would really do it-have slaves fight each other to the death in the Colosseum, or burn people to death in the public square for holding opinions which were locally unpopular, or build factories whose only purpose was to kill people in indistrial quantities, or to blow up whole cities, and on and on."
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"Pay attention. How a person handles poor cell service, traffic, and spotty wifi is a good indicator of how they'll behave during relationship challenges."
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"With no power to annul the elemental evil in him, though readily enough he could hide it; apprehending the good, but powerless to be it; a nature like Claggart's, surcharged with energy as such natures almost invariably are, what recourse is left to it but to recoil upon itself and, like the scorpion for which the Creator alone is responsible, act out to the end the part allotted it."
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"I have no doubt that they'll tell you a lot of kind things about me when my back is turned. They may not have been behind the door when God passed out the pretty faces, but Heaven only knows where they were when He divided up the gratitude."
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"Beauty is a behavior. As is ugliness."
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"There are people who, the more you do for them, the less they will do for themseselves."
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"It is childish to eat primarily or only to please your tongue."
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"He had just about enough intelligence to open his mouth when he wanted to eat, but certainly no more."
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