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"It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims."
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"It is easy to fly into a passion--anybody can do that--but to be angry with the right person and at the right time and with the right object and in the right way--that is not easy, and it is not everyone who can do it."
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"Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work."
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"I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies, for the hardest victory is over self."
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"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."
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"Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods."
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"If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost."
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"What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies."
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"The best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake."
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"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit."
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