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- When you meet your antagonist, do everything in a mild and agreeable manner. Let your courage be as keen, but at the same time as polished, as your sword.
- Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751 - 1816)
- Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve.
- Chinese Proverb
- Do not throw the arrow which will return against you.
- Kurdish Proverb
- Be contented when you have got all you want.
- Holbrook Jackson
- I have a simple philosophy. Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. And scratch where it itches.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth (1884 - 1980)
- One of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid.
- Jonathan Swift (1667 - 1745)
- The time to stop talking is when the other person nods his head affirmatively but says nothing.
- Henry S. Haskins
- Remember that what you believe will depend very much on what you are.
- Noah Porter (1811 - 1892)
- One needs to be slow to form convictions, but once formed they must be defended against the heaviest odds.
- Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948)
- Don't let your sorrow come higher than your knees.
- Swedish Proverb
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