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The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.
The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.
Doubt is the beginning, not the end, of wisdom.
Doubt is the beginning, not the end, of wisdom.
Write the bad things that are done to you in sand, but write the good things that happen to you read more
Write the bad things that are done to you in sand, but write the good things that happen to you on a piece of marble.
Wind buffs up empty bladders; opinion, fools.
Wind buffs up empty bladders; opinion, fools.
Live as if your were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
Live as if your were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
There is a sort of veteran woman of condition, who, having lived always in the grand monde, and having possibly read more
There is a sort of veteran woman of condition, who, having lived always in the grand monde, and having possibly had some gallantries, together with the experience of five and twenty or thirty years, form a young fellow better than all the rules that can be given him. Wherever you go, make some of those women your friends; which a very little matter will do. Ask their advice, tell them your doubts or difficulties as to your behavior; but take great care not to drop one word of their experience; for experience implies age, and the suspicion of age, no woman, let her be ever so old, ever forgives.
But a stranger in a strange land, he is no one: men know him not-and to know not is to read more
But a stranger in a strange land, he is no one: men know him not-and to know not is to care not for.
Learning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost.
Learning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost.
Men on their side must force themselves for a while to lay their notions by and begin to familiarize themselves read more
Men on their side must force themselves for a while to lay their notions by and begin to familiarize themselves with facts.
