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Before every action ask yourself. Will this bring more monkeys on my back. Will the result of my action be a blessing or a heavy burden?: Alfred A. Montapert
Life's experiences are intended to make you eventually face yourself. Face reality!: Harold Sherman
It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.: Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)
I quote others only in order the better to express myself.: Michel de Montaigne (1533 - 1592)
The next thing to saying a good thing yourself, is to quote one.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
Pride, like laudanun and other poisonous medicines, is beneficial in small, though injurious in large quantities. No man who is not pleased with himself, even in a personal sense, can please others.: Frederick Saunders
Pride is seldom delicate; it will please itself with very mean advantages.: Johnson
A man desires praise that he may be reassured, that he may be quit of his doubting of himself; he is indifferent to applause when he is confident of success.: Alec Waugh
When I was young I had an elderly friend who used often to ask me to stay with him in the country. He was a religious man and he read prayers to the assembled household every morning. But he had crossed out in pencil all the passages that praised God. He said that there was nothing so vulgar as to praise people to their faces and, himself a gentleman, he could not believe that God was so ungentlemanly as to like it.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965)
Most powerful is he who has himself in his power.: Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD)

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