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It is always the best policy to speak the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.
It is always the best policy to speak the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.
The curiosity to know things has been given to man as a scourge.
The curiosity to know things has been given to man as a scourge.
Others have done it before me. I can, too.
Others have done it before me. I can, too.
Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.
It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.
Character is the sum and total of a person's choices.
Character is the sum and total of a person's choices.
A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.
A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.
We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it - and stop read more
We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it - and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove lid. She will never sit on a hot stove lid again - and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore. -Mark Twain.
It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own.
It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own.
