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Listen. Don't explain or justify.
Listen. Don't explain or justify.
For parlor use, the vague generality is a life saver.
For parlor use, the vague generality is a life saver.
Two things may happen when we meet someone: either we become friends or we try to convince that person to read more
Two things may happen when we meet someone: either we become friends or we try to convince that person to accept our beliefs. The same thing happens when a hot coal meets another piece of coal: it either shares its fire with it or is overwhelmed by the other`s size and is extinguished.
Nature gave us one tongue and two ears so we could hear twice as much as we speak.
Nature gave us one tongue and two ears so we could hear twice as much as we speak.
There is nothing wrong in using people. The success never uses people except to their advantage.
There is nothing wrong in using people. The success never uses people except to their advantage.
Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.
Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.
Her great merit is finding out mine -- there is nothing so amiable as discernment.
Her great merit is finding out mine -- there is nothing so amiable as discernment.
It's discouraging to make a mistake, but it's humiliating when you find out you're so unimportant that nobody noticed it.
It's discouraging to make a mistake, but it's humiliating when you find out you're so unimportant that nobody noticed it.
Let this be understood, then, at starting; that the patient conquest of difficulties which rise in the regular and legitimate read more
Let this be understood, then, at starting; that the patient conquest of difficulties which rise in the regular and legitimate channels of business and enterprise is not only essential in securing the success which you seek but it is essential to that preparation of your mind, requisite for the enjoyment of your successes, and for retaining them when gained. So, day by day, and week by week; so month after month, and year after year, work on, and in that process gain strength and symmetry, and nerve and knowledge, that when success, patiently and bravely worked for, shall come, it may find you prepared to receive it and keep it,.
