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- Do not consider painful what is good for you.
- Euripides (484 BC - 406 BC)
- Open your mouth and purse cautiously, and your stock of wealth and reputation shall, at least in repute, be great.
- Johann Georg von Zimmermann
- When you have got an elephant by the hind leg, and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.
- Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
- The better part of valor is discretion, in the which better part I have saved my life.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), 'King Henry IV part I'
- If we attend continually and promptly to the little that we can do, we shall ere long be surprised to find how little remains that we cannot do.
- Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902)
- Do definite good; first of all to yourself, then to definite persons.
- John Lancaster Spalding
- If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.
- Rene Descartes (1596 - 1650)
- To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.
- Anatole France (1844 - 1924)
- 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
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