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- In the republic of mediocrity genius is dangerous.
- Robert G. Ingersoll
- Solitude, the safeguard of mediocrity.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
- To be always thinking about your manners is not the way to make them good; the very perfection of manners is not to think about yourself.
- Richard Whately
- Those that are good manners at the court are as ridiculous in the country, as the behavior of the country is most mockable at the court.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
- I don't believe in the goodness of disagreeable people.
- O. Dewey
- The society of women is the element of good manners.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
- Prepare yourself for the world, as the athletes used to do for their exercise; oil your mind and your manners, to give them the necessary suppleness and flexibility; strength alone will not do.
- Lord Chesterfield (1694 - 1773)
- Malice sucks up the greater part of her own venom, and poisons herself.
- Michel de Montaigne (1533 - 1592)
- Luck always seems to be against the man who depends on it.
- Author Unknown
- Never have anything to do with an unlucky place, or an unlucky man. I have seen many clever men, very clever men, who had not shoes to their feet. I never act with them. Their advice sounds very well, but they cannot get on themselves; and if they cannot do good to themselves, how can they do good for me?
- Rothschild
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