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- Conscience is, in most men, an anticipation of the opinion of others.
- Sir Henry Taylor
- It is a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.
- W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965)
- We would rather run ourselves down than not speak of ourselves at all.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)
- We sometimes imagine we hate flattery, but we only hate the way we are flattered.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)
- A man is very apt to complain of the ingratitude of those who have risen far above him.
- Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
- Not everything that is more difficult is more meritorious.
- Saint Thomas Aquinas (1225 - 1274)
- Character consists of what you do on the third and forth tries.
- James Mechener
- Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
- A man can only do what he can do. But if he does that each day he can sleep at night and do it again the next day.
- Albert Schweitzer (1875 - 1965)
- Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
- Michelangelo
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