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- Put even the plainest woman into a beautiful dress and unconsciously she will try to live up to it.
- Lady Duff-Gordon (1863 - 1935)
- In your clothes avoid too much gaudiness; do not value yourself upon an embroidered gown; and remember that a reasonable word, or an obliging look, will gain you more respect than all your fine trappings.
- Sir George Savile, 'Advice to a Daughter,' 1688
- When you have a number of disagreeable duties to perform, always do the most disagreeable first.
- Josiah Quincy
- How can you come to know yourself? Never by thinking, always by doing. Try to do your duty, and you'll know right away what you amount to.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
- If all the year were playing holidays; To sport would be as tedious as to work.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), 'The First Part of King Henry the IV'
- Preach not to others what they should eat, but eat as becomes you, and be silent.
- Epictetus (55 AD - 135 AD)
- If hunger makes you irritable, better eat and be pleasant.
- Sefer Hasidim
- Make hunger thy sauce, as a medicine for health.
- Thomas Tusser, 1524
- If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher's stone.
- Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
- Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not; it is the first lesson that ought to be learned; and however early a man's training begins, it is probably the last lesson that he learns thoroughly.
- Thomas H. Huxley (1825 - 1895)
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