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Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment
Arguments out of a pretty mouth are unanswerable
Some report elsewhere whatever is told them; the measure of fiction always increases, and each fresh narrator adds something to what he has heard
A man never tells you anything until you contradict him
It is no easy matter to say commonplace things in an original way
Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself
We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all
It is never so difficult to speak as when we are ashamed of our silence
Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think
When they talk'd of their Raphaels, Correggios, and stuff,
He shifted his trumpet and only took snuff.
He shifted his trumpet and only took snuff.
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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