"Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become."

Holmes, Oliver Wendell on friends and friendship
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"Talk to every woman as if you loved her, and to every man as if he bored you, and at the end of your first season you will have the reputation of possessing the most perfect social tact."

Wilde, Oscar on conversation
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"If you would be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams -- the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn."

Southey, Robert on brevity   

"Brevity is the soul of wit, and tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes."

Shakespeare, William on brevity   

"The fewer the words, the better the prayer."

Luther, Martin on brevity
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"Any coward can fight a battle when he's sure of winning, but give me the man who has pluck to fight when he's sure of losing. That's my way, sir; and there are many victories worse than a defeat."

Eliot, George on battles
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"Give a beggar a dime and he'll bless you. Give him a dollar and he'll curse you for withholding the rest of your fortune. Poverty is a bag with a hole at the bottom."

Yezierska, Anzia on beggars   

"Where there is no belief, there is no blasphemy."

Rushdie, Salman on blasphemy   

"Most bosses know instinctively that their power depends more on employee's compliance than on threats or sanctions."

Bartolme, Fernanda on bosses and employees
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"It is your people who make the ultimate difference. You put the investment into training the people and then, when you get invited to the party with the big boys, that is a unique selling point."

Dixon, Phil on bosses and employees   

"The person who knows HOW will always have a job. The person who knows WHY will always be his boss."

Ravitch, Diane on bosses and employees
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"There is also this benefit in brag, that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means, draw it all out, and hold him to it."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on bragging   

"There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together."

Billings, Josh on brevity
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"Brevity and conciseness are the parents of correction."

Ballou, Hosea on brevity   

"Brevity is a great charm of eloquence."

Cicero, Marcus T. on brevity   

"The more you say, the less people remember. The fewer the words, the greater the profit."

FeNelon, Francois on brevity
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"Good things, when short, are twice as good."

Gracian, Baltasar on brevity
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"The more you know the less you need to say."

Rohn, Jim on talkativeness
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"The habit of common and continuous speech is a symptom of mental deficiency. It proceeds from not knowing what is going on in other people's minds."

Bagehot, Walter on talkativeness   

"No man ever listened himself out of a job."

Coolidge, Calvin on talkativeness   

"Every calamity is a spur and valuable hint."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on calamity   

"Calamity is man's true touchstone."

Fletcher, Beaumont and on calamity   

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"Do not accustom yourself to consider debt only as an inconvenience. You will find it a calamity."

Johnson, Samuel on calamity   

"It is only from the belief of the goodness and wisdom of a supreme being, that our calamities can be borne in the manner which becomes a man."

Mackenzie, Henry on calamity   

"Calamity is the test of integrity."

Richardson, Samuel on calamity
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"Calamity is virtue's opportunity."

Seneca on calamity   

"He who foresees calamities, suffers them twice over."

Porteous, Bishop on calamity   

"Frank and explicit -- that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others."

Disraeli, Benjamin on candor   

"Candor is the brightest gem of criticism."

Disraeli, Benjamin on candor   

"Candor is a proof of both a just frame of mind, and of a good tone of breeding. It is a quality that belongs equally to the honest man and to the gentleman."

Cooper, James F. on candor   

"There is no wisdom like frankness."

Disraeli, Benjamin on candor
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"Examine what is said, not him who speaks."

Proverb, Arabian on candor
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"Calamity is the perfect glass wherein we truly see and know ourselves."

Davenant, William on calamity   

"If you're too busy to help those around you succeed, you're too busy."

Unknown, Source on busyness   

"It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?"

Thoreau, Henry David on busyness
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"What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on talkativeness
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"To talk without thinking is to shoot without aiming."

Proverb, English on talkativeness
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"Always be ready to speak your mind, and a base man will avoid you."

Blake, William on candor
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"The budget evolved from a management tool into an obstacle to management."

Carlucci, Frank C. on budgets   

"Budgets are for cutting, that's why you set them."

Buckman, Dr. Laurence on budgets