"To oblige persons often costs little and helps much."

Gracian, Baltasar on service   

"Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything."

Waugh, Evelyn on manners   

"Somebody once said that Washington was a city of Northern charm and Southern efficiency. "

Kennedy, John F. on uncategorised
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"Everywhere, we learn only from those whom we love."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on learning
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"Do you really have to be the ice queen intellectual or the slut whore? Isn't there some way to be both?"

Sarandon, Susan on stereotypes   

"He who does not have common sense at age thirty will never have it."

Proverb on common sense
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"It is delivery that makes the orators success."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on speakers and speaking
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"I know of nothing more laughable than a doctor who does not die of old age."

Voltaire on doctors
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"You never know how much a man can't remember until he is called as a witness."

Rogers, Will on memory
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"For those who believe, no proof is necessary. For those who don't believe, no proof is possible."

Saying, Traditional on belief
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"Work banishes those three great evils: boredom, vice and poverty."

Voltaire on work
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"A man can be himself only so long as he is alone."

Schopenhauer, Arthur on solitude
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"The greatest mistake a man can make is to be afraid of making one."

Hubbard, Elbert on mistakes
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"Dignity is a mask we wear to hide our ignorance."

Hubbard, Elbert on dignity
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"You can lead a boy to college, but you cannot make him to think."

Hubbard, Elbert on education
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"There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no insurmountable barrier except our own inherent weakness of purpose."

Hubbard, Elbert on failure
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"The supernatural is the natural not yet understood."

Hubbard, Elbert on faith
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"Your friend is that man who knows all about you, and still likes you."

Hubbard, Elbert on friends and friendship
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"Genius is the ability to act rightly without precedent -- the power to do the right thing the first time."

Hubbard, Elbert on genius
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"Men are rich only as they give. He who gives great service gets great rewards."

Hubbard, Elbert on giving
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"I would rather be able to appreciate things I can not have than to have things I am not able to appreciate."

Hubbard, Elbert on appreciation
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"When someone says it ain't the money, but its the principal of the thing, it's the money."

Hubbard, Elbert on money   

"The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes."

Disraeli, Benjamin on preparation
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"Always remember, a cat looks down on man, a dog looks up to man, but a pig will look man right in the eye and see his equal."

Churchill, Winston on animals
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"Nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first known."

Da Vinci, Leonardo on understanding
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"Let them hate, so long as they fear."

Accius on power
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"The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm."

Nightingale, Florence on medicine   

"I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self."

Aristotle on self-control
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"I have never developed indigestion from eating my words."

Churchill, Winston on words
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"Time is the devourer of all things."

Ovid on time   

"We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone."

Welles, Orson on isolation
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"Many deceive themselves, imagining they'll find happiness in change."

Kempis, Thomas on change
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"He that never changes his opinion never corrects mistakes and will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today."

Edwards, Tryon on opinions
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"The best reformers the world has ever seen are those who commence on themselves. "

Shaw, George Bernard on uncategorised
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"To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illuminate only the track it has passed."

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor on experience
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"Patience and the passage of time do more than strength and fury."

La Fontaine, Jean De on patience
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"Men sooner forget the death of their father than the loss of their patrimony."

Machiavelli, Niccolo on inheritance   

"Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed."

Franklin, Benjamin on expectation
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"Every sale has five basic obstacles: no need, no money, no hurry, no desire, no trust."

Ziglar, Zig on obstacles
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"I praise loudly, I blame softly."

Catherine II of Russia on blame
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