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The education of the will is the object of our existence.
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Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices.
[ Manners ]
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Manners are the happy way of doing things; each once a stroke of genius or of love --now repeated and hardened into usage. They form at last a rich varnish, with which the routine of life is washed, and its details adorned. If they are superficial, so are the dewdrops which give such depth to the morning meadows.
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Manners require time, and nothing is more vulgar than haste.
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The basis of good manners is self-reliance.
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There are men whose manners have the same essential splendor as the simple and awful sculpture on the friezes of the Parthenon, and the remains of the earliest Greek art.
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The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.
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The world is upheld by the veracity of good men: they make the earth wholesome. They who lived with them found life glad and nutritious. Life is sweet and tolerable only in our belief in such society.
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There is one topic peremptorily forbidden to all well-bred, to all rational mortals, namely, their distempers. If you have not slept, or if you have slept, or if you have headache, or sciatica, or leprosy, or thunder-stroke, I beseech you, by all angels, to hold your peace, and not pollute the morning.
[ Complaining ]
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Some will always be above others. Destroy the inequality today, and it will appear again tomorrow.
[ Equality ]
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Talent is commonly developed at the expense of character.
[ Talent ]
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It is a happy talent to know how to play.
[ Talent ]
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Every man has his own vocation, talent is the call.
[ Talent ]
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Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book; a personality which, by birth and quality, is pledged to the doctrines there set forth, and which exists to see and state things so, and not otherwise.
[ Talent ]
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Talent for talent's sake is a bauble and a show. Talent working with joy in the cause of universal truth lifts the possessor to new power as a benefactor.
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The wonder is always new that any sane man can be a sailor.
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The most advanced nations are always those who navigate the most.
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Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
[ Integrity ]
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In failing circumstances no one can be relied on to keep their integrity.
[ Integrity ]
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The most dangerous thing is illusion.
[ Danger ]
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