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- To listen closely and reply well is the highest perfection we are able to attain in the art of conversation.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)
- Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for it is that which all are practising every day while they live.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
- Do no dishonour to the earth least you dishonour the spirit of man.
- Henry Beston
- People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
- You've done a nice job decorating the White House.
- Jessica Simpson (1980 - ), Upon being introduced to Interior Secretary Gale Norton
- No man can sit down and withhold his hands from the warfare against wrong and get peace from his acquiescence.
- Woodrow Wilson (1856 - 1924)
- In the arena of human life the honours and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities.
- Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC), Nicomachean Ethics (4th c. BC)
- You cram these words into mine ears against the stomach of my sense.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
- Equality...is the result of human organization. We are not born equal.
- Hannah Arendt (1906 - 1975)
- Only he is free who cultivates his own thoughts, and strives without fear to do justice to them.
- Berthold Auerbach (1812 - 1882)
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