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Wear your learning like your watch, in a private pocket; and do not pull it out, and strike it, merely to show that you have one.
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He makes people pleased with him by making them first pleased with themselves.
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Frequent and loud laughter is the characteristic of folly and ill manners.
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Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible.
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Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh.
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Vice, in its true light, is so deformed, that it shocks us at first sight; and would hardly ever seduce us, if it did not at first wear the mask of some virtue.
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The rich are always advising the poor, but the poor seldom return the compliment.
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If you can once engage people's pride, love, pity, ambition on your side, you need not fear what their reason can do against you.
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Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination: never put off till to-morrow what you can do to-day.
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Never seem more learned than the people you are with. Wear your learning like a pocket watch and keep it hidden. Do not pull it out to count the hours, but give the time when you are asked.
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Pleasure is a necessary reciprocal. No one feels, who does not at the same time give it. To be pleased, one must please. What pleases you in others, will in general please them in you.
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Remember, as long as you live, that nothing but strict truth can carry you through the world, with either your conscience or your honor unwounded.
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Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it; most people aim at it, all people fear it, and few love it unless in themselves. A man must have a good share of wit himself to endure a great share of it in another.
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Good humor is the health of the soul, sadness is its poison.
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