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- So live that your memories will be part of your happiness.
- Author Unknown
- Nothing improves the memory more than trying to forget.
- Author Unknown
- We can remember minutely and precisely only the things which never really happened to us.
- Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983)
- Memory depends very much on the perspicuity, regularity, and order of our thoughts. Many complain of the want of memory, when the defect is in the judgment; and others, by grasping at all, retain nothing.
- Thomas Fuller (1608 - 1661)
- Minds of moderate caliber ordinarily condemn everything which is beyond their range.
- Francois De La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)
- Solitude, the safeguard of mediocrity.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
- To be always thinking about your manners is not the way to make them good; the very perfection of manners is not to think about yourself.
- Richard Whately
- Those that are good manners at the court are as ridiculous in the country, as the behavior of the country is most mockable at the court.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
- Better were it to be unborn than to be ill bred.
- Sir Walter Raleigh (1552 - 1618)
- The society of women is the element of good manners.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
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