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- 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
- Let a good man do good deeds with the same zeal that the evil man does bad ones.
- The Belzer Rabbi
- In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.
- Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
- Know, first, who you are; and then adorn yourself accordingly.
- Epictetus (55 AD - 135 AD)
- My father used to say, 'Let them see you and not the suit. That should be secondary.'
- Cary Grant (1904 - 1986)
- 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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