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1 | The nearer you come in relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become. |
2 | [on direction] The greatest thing in the world is not so much where we are, but in what direction we are moving. |
3 | It is the province of knowledge to speak and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen. |
4 | Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one. |
5 | A sick man that gets talking about himself, a woman that gets talking about her baby, and an author that begins reading out of his own book, never know when to stop. |
6 | To be a parent is almost to be a fatalist. |
7 | A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience. |
8 | Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else. |
9 | Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by children. |
10 | I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it, but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor. |
11 | Old age is fifteen years older than I am. |
12 | Life and language are alike sacred. Homicide and verbicide--that is, violent treatment of a word with fatal results to its legitimate meaning, which is its life--are alike forbidden. |
13 | Nothing is so commonplace as to wish to be remarkable. |