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A man's ancestry is a positive property to him.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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If you are in doubt whether to write a letter or not, don't. And the advice applies to many doubts in life besides that of letter writing.
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To dispense with ceremony is the most delicate mode of conferring a compliment.
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If a good face is a letter of recommendation, a good heart is a letter of credit.
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Each man forms his duty according to his predominant characteristic the stern require an avenging judge the gentle, a forgiving father. Just so the pygmies declared that Jove himself was a pygmy.
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Patience is not passive on the contrary, it is active it is concentrated strength.
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There is no past, as long as books shall live. Books make the past our heritage and our home.
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There is no tongue that flatters like a lover's and yet, in the exaggeration of his feelings, flattery seems to him commonplace. Strange and prodigal exuberance, which soon exhausts itself by flowing!
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Vanity calculates but poorly on the vanity of others what a virtue we should distil from frailty, what a world of pain we should save our brethren, if we would suffer our own weakness to be the measure of theirs.
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Nothing so good as a university education, nor worse than a university without its education.
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Irony is to the high-bred what billingsgate is to the vulgar and when one gentleman thinks another gentleman an ass, he does not say it point-blank, he implies it in the politest terms he can invent.
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