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Advice: the smallest current coin.
Advice: the smallest current coin.
Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
A blank helpless sort of face, rather like a rose just before you drench it with D.D.T.
A blank helpless sort of face, rather like a rose just before you drench it with D.D.T.
Where you are in consciousness has everything to do with what you see in experience.
Where you are in consciousness has everything to do with what you see in experience.
The road to success runs uphill.
The road to success runs uphill.
The worst men often give the best advice.
The worst men often give the best advice.
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.
Intolerance is the most socially acceptable form of egotism, for it permits us to assume superiority without personal boasting.
Intolerance is the most socially acceptable form of egotism, for it permits us to assume superiority without personal boasting.
If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them.
If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them.
