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Behavior Quotes
"Civility (sabhyata,) is the sign of one with the right belief (enlightened view, samkit) and etiquette is the sign of one with a wrong belief (deluded view, bhranti)."
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"Mr. Babcock pats my shoulder. He smiles, and the caterpillar mustache - the envy of state troopers everywhere, I'm sure - straightens out again. I hear that on the weekends, he's a part-time security guard with mirrored sunglasses and a gun. He probably poses in front of his bathroom mirror to see how he looks saying "Freeze!"
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"I have found there to be little distance between the unlatching of a chain and the spreading of a woman's legs. As if they can never unbar only a single entrance. It's a disease called hope. Women suffer from it greatly."
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"The impatient man is his own enemy, he slams the door on his own progress."
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"Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness."
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"If they do it often, it isn't a mistake; it's just their behavior."
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"Cruel people offer pity when they no longer feel threatened. However, kind people offer compassion and understanding regardless."
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"He was the mildest manner'd man That ever scuttled ship or cut a throat."
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"All of us are born with a set of instinctive fears - of falling, of the dark, of lobsters, of falling on lobsters in the dark, of speaking before a Rotary Club, and of the words 'Some Assembly Required'."
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"The laziness of adolescence is a rehearsal for the incapacity of old age."
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"Marianne had now been brought by degrees, so much into the habit of going out every day, that it was become a matter of indifference to her, whether she went or not: and she prepared quietly and mechanically for every evening's engagement, though without expecting the smallest amusement from any, and very often without knowing, till the last moment, where it was to take her."
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"People love to read about sins and errors, but not their own."
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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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"There is, I believe, in every disposition a tendency to some particular evil, a natural defect, which not even the best education can overcome.""And your defect is a propensity to hate everybody.""And yours," he replied with a smile, "is wilfully to misunderstand them."
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"Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference."
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"Pride and folly, they go together like two tightly grasping hands."
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"With animal behavior, they're all fine until you introduce some rogue element into the cage, and then they go crazy."
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"Lazy people live lonely lives."
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"But the vain man did not hear him. Vain men never hear anything but praise."
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"There are two good reasons to put your napkin in your lap. One is that food might spill in your lap, and it is better to stain the napkin than your clothing. The other is that it can serve as a perfect hiding place. Practically nobody is nosey enough to take the napkin off a lap to see what is hidden there."
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"He reached up and tugged his ear. And I did the same."
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"A sense of having been decoyed by some world-old conspiracy into this bondage of body and soul filled her with despair. If marriage was the slow life-long acquittal of a debt contracted in ignorance, then marriage was a crime against human nature."
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"The most expensive sex is free sex."
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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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"The hare-brained chatter of irresponsible frivolity."
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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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