Aim at perfection in everything, though in most things it is unattainable. However, they who aim at it, and persevere, will come much nearer to it than those whose laziness and despondency make them give it up as unattainable.

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Wrongs are often forgiven; contempt never

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Hear one side and you will be in the dark. Hear both and all will be clear.

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Idleness is the only refuge of weak minds, and the holiday of fools

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Inferiority is what you enjoy in your best friends

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Ridicule is the best test of truth

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Dispatch is the soul of business, and nothing contributes more to Dispatch than Method.

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Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are apt to think themselves sober enough.

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An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.

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Nature has hardly formed a woman ugly enough to be insensible to flattery upon her person.

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Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness; no laziness; no procrastination; never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.

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Pleasure is a necessary reciprocal. No one feels, who does not at the same time give it. To be pleased, one must please. What pleases you in others, will in general please them in you.

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Aim at perfection in everything, though in most things it is unattainable. However, they who aim at it, and persevere, will come much nearer to it than those whose laziness and despondency make them give it up as unattainable.

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Men, as well as women, are much oftener led by their hearts than by their understandings.

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Be wiser than other people, if you can, but do not tell them so.

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Whatever is worth doing at all, is worth doing well.

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Wear your learning, like a watch, in a private pocket: and do not pull it out and strike it, merely to show that you have one.

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The less one has to do, the less time one finds to do it in.

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Advice is seldom welcome, and those who need it the most, like it the least.

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Advice is seldom welcome; and those who want it the most always like it the least.

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Character must be kept bright as well as clean.

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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.

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Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.

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Never seem wiser, nor more learned, than the people you are with. Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private pocket: and do not merely pull it out and strike it; merely to show that you have one.

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Better to understand a little than to misunderstand a lot.

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