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Behavior Quotes
"Who but the mad would choose to keep on living? In the end, aren't we all just a little crazy?"
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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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"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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"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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"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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"It is childish to eat primarily or only to please your tongue."
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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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"Curiously, the one bodily fluid of other people that doesn't disgust us is the one produced by the human alone: tears. Consider the sole type of used tissue you'd be willing to share."
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"The pretence leads up to the real thing. When you are not feeling particularly friendly but know you ought to be, the best thing you can do, very often, is put on a friendly manner and behave as if you were a nicer person than you actually are. And in a few minutes, as we have all noticed, you will be really feeling friendlier than you were. Very often the only way to get a quality in reality is to start behaving as if you had it already."
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"The impatient man is his own enemy, he slams the door on his own progress."
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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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"Pride only helps us to be generous; it never makes us so, any more than vanity makes us witty."
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"The behavior of a human being in sexual matters is often a prototype for the whole of his other modes of reaction in life."
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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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"Cruel people offer pity when they no longer feel threatened. However, kind people offer compassion and understanding regardless."
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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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"The hare-brained chatter of irresponsible frivolity."
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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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"I rather mistrust young men who slip into life gracefully."
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"Don't plead with anyone if you were not at fault, you'll only look inferior, stupid and funny, bolster your ego by doing the undoing."
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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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"If they do it often, it isn't a mistake; it's just their behavior."
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"I'd developed an apology-is-much-better-than-asking-for-permission mentality."
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"He reached up and tugged his ear. And I did the same."
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"Those who make hostility a daily manner are often left in the lurch at difficult times."
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"Most people would rather eat inside a windowless room in which they have just defecated than eat inside one in which someone else has just farted, even if the room does not have a toilet."
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"This may be the curse of the human race, not that we are so different from one another, but that we are so alike."
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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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