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The child gets two confusing messages when a parent tells him which is the right fork to use, and then proceeds to use the wrong one. So does the child who listens to parents bicker and fuss, yet is told to be nice to his brothers and sisters. ↗

— Rachel Blanchard

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There is no road too long to the man who advances deliberately and without undue haste; there are no honors too distant to the man who prepares himself for them with patience. ↗

— Jean de la Bruyere

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Since, therefore, no man is born without faults, and he is esteemed the best whose errors are the least, let the wise man consider everything human as connected with himself; for in worldly affairs there is no perfect happiness under heaven. ↗

— Giraldus Cambrensis

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He makes people pleased with him by making them first pleased with themselves. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

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Ultimately, you have to not worry about people thinking you should have played him differently. You're the one playing the part so it has to be yours. ↗

— Ewan McGregor

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What I thought we ought to try to do in a book like this is to focus closely on Lincoln, himself, to see what he knew, how he knew it, how he came to make the decisions that he did, and how he implemented them. ↗

— David Herbert Donald

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Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act. ↗

— Claud-Adrian Helvetius

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The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble shortsightedness of him who observes it. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

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Success is an absurd, erratic thing. She arrives when one least expects her and after she has come may depart again almost because of a whim. ↗

— Alice Foote MacDougall

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They are the guiding oracles which man has found out for himself in that great business of ours, of learning how to be, to do, to do without, and to depart. ↗

— John Morley

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