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- Have more than thou showest; Speak less than thou knowest.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), 'King Lear,' Act I, Scene iv
- Neither a borrower nor a lender be; For loan oft loses both itself and friend; And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry [economy].
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), 'Hamlet,' Act I, Scene iii
- Costly thy habit [dress] as thy purse can buy; But not expressed in fancy - rich, not gaudy. For the apparel oft proclaims the man.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), 'Hamlet,' Act I, Scene iii
- Every man is guilty of all the good he didn't do.
- Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
- To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it the more fit for its prime function of looking forward.
- Margaret Fairless Barber
- Aim at the sun, and you may not reach it; but your arrow will fly far higher than if aimed at an object on a level with yourself.
- Joel Hawes
- One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.
- Helen Keller (1880 - 1968)
- Everything has got a moral if you can only find it.
- Lewis Carroll (1832 - 1898)
- Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong?
- Jane Austen (1775 - 1817)
- Beware of too much laughter, for it deadens the mind and produces oblivion.
- The Talmud
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