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Character is long-standing habit.
Plutarch
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As in the case of painters, who have undertaken to give us a beautiful and graceful figure, which may have some slight blemishes, we do not wish then to pass over such blemishes altogether, nor yet to mark them too prominently. The one would spoil the beauty, and the other destroy the likeness of the picture.
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Authority and place demonstrate and try the tempers of men, by moving every passion and discovering every frailty.
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Abstruse questions must have abstruse answers.
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If you light upon an impertinent talker, that sticks to you like a bur, to the disappointment of your important occasions, deal freely with him, break off the discourse, and pursue your business.
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Silence is an answer to a wise man.
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