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- It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.
- Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948)
- If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.
- Plato (427 BC - 347 BC)
- Say all you have to say in the fewest possible words, or your reader will be sure to skip them; and in the plainest possible words or he will certainly misunderstand them.
- John Ruskin (1819 - 1900)
- Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all.
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
- Grasp the subject, the words will follow.
- Cato the Elder (234 BC - 149 BC)
- Do pleasant things yourself, but unpleasant things through others.
- Baltasar Gracian
- Don't laugh at a youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find his own.
- Logan Pearsall Smith (1865 - 1946)
- Keep true to the dreams of thy youth.
- Friedrich von Schiller (1759 - 1805)
- Be gentle with the young.
- Juvenal (55 AD - 127 AD)
- Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus, but use all gently. For in the very torrent, tempest, and as I may say, whirlwind of passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), 'The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark,' Act III, scene ii
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