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Choose your friends by their character and your socks by their color. Choosing your socks by their character makes no read more
Choose your friends by their character and your socks by their color. Choosing your socks by their character makes no sense, and choosing your friends by their color is unthinkable.
He was indeed the glass
Wherein the noble youth did dress themselves.
He was indeed the glass
Wherein the noble youth did dress themselves.
Example is a dangerous lure: where the wasp got through the gnat
sticks fast.
[Fr., L'exemple est un read more
Example is a dangerous lure: where the wasp got through the gnat
sticks fast.
[Fr., L'exemple est un dangereux leurre;
Ou la guepe a passe, le moucheron demeure.]
A good example has twice the value of good advice
A good example has twice the value of good advice
Why doth one man's yawning make another yawn?
Why doth one man's yawning make another yawn?
If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and read more
If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not as an example.
If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.
If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.
It is easier to exemplify values than teach them.
It is easier to exemplify values than teach them.
The old begin to complain of the conduct of the young when they themselves are no longer able to set read more
The old begin to complain of the conduct of the young when they themselves are no longer able to set a bad example
