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Famous Sayings Proverbs and Quotations - 57
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C. S. Lewis, The Abolition of Man
It still remains true that no justification of virtue will enable a man to be virtuous.
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Earl of Roscommon
What you keep by you, you may change and mend but words, once spoken, can never be recalled.
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Conte Vittorio Alfieri
What we plan we build.
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Josiah Quincy
When you have a number of disagreeable duties to perform, always do the most disagreeable first.
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William Hazlitt
To impress the idea of power on others, they must be made in some way to feel it.
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Terence
I bid him look into the lives of men as though into a mirror, and from others to take an example for himself.
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Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton
One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error.
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Jacob Braude
If a thing goes without saying -- let it.
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Harry S Truman
Well, I wouldn't say I was in the 'great' class, but I had a great time while I was trying to be great.
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Confucius, The Confucian Analects, bk. 11:11
While you are not able to serve men, how can you serve spirits of the dead?...While you do not know life, how can you know about death?
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Ulysses S. Grant, Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant, Chapter 46
It is men who wait to be selected, and not those who seek, from whom we may expect the most efficient service.
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Dick Brandon
Documentation is like sex: when it is good, it is very, very good; and when it is bad, it is better than nothing.
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