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- Never seem more learned than the people you are with. Wear your learning like a pocket watch and keep it hidden. Do not pull it out to count the hours, but give the time when you are asked.
- Lord Chesterfield (1694 - 1773)
- It is no profit to have learned well, if you neglect to do well.
- Publilius Syrus (~100 BC)
- You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth.
- Evan Esar (1899 - 1995)
- Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.
- Will Rogers (1879 - 1935)
- You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
- Dale Carnegie
- Dwell not upon thy weariness, thy strength shall be according to the measure of thy desire.
- Arab Proverb
- 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)
- Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot.
- D. H. Lawrence (1885 - 1930)
- Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.
- Dag Hammarskjold (1905 - 1961)
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