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"To manage men, one ought to have a sharp mind in a velvet sheath."
"The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words."
"Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words."
"Ignorant kindness may have the effect of cruelty; but to be angry with it as if it were direct cruelty would be an ignorant unkindness."
"Any coward can fight a battle when he's sure of winning, but give me the man who has pluck to fight when he's sure of losing. That's my way, sir; and there are many victories worse than a defeat."
"What we call despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope."
"There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope."
"In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness."
"I've never any pity for conceited people, because I think they carry their comfort about with them."
"Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact."
