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- When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
- Ernest Hemingway (1899 - 1961)
- Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly.
- Plutarch (46 AD - 120 AD)
- Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.
- Alan Watts
- An ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness.
- Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915)
- Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
- George S. Patton (1885 - 1945)
- Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely.
- William Penn (1644 - 1718)
- All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest - never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle of equal partnership.
- Ann Landers (1918 - 2002)
- To be mature means to face, and not evade, every fresh crisis that comes.
- Fritz Kunkel
- Never bear more than one trouble at a time. Some people bear three kinds - all they have had, all they have now, and all they expect to have.
- Edward Everett Hale (1822 - 1909)
- Whenever evil befalls us, we ought to ask ourselves, after the first suffering, how we can turn it into good. So shall we take occasion, from one bitter root, to raise perhaps many flowers.
- Leigh Hunt (1784 - 1859)
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