Few persons have courage enough to appear as good as they really are.
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The ancients dreaded death the Christian can only fear dying.Augustus William Hare
If you and your lips would keep from slips Of five things have a care To whom you speak, of whom you speak, And how, and when, and where.
Augustus William Hare
Everybody has his own theater, in which he is manager, actor, prompter, playwrite, sceneshifter, boxkeeper, doorkeeper, all in one, andaudience into the bargain.
Augustus William Hare
Every Irishman, the saying goes, has a potato in his head.
Augustus William Hare
When will talkers refrain from evil speaking when listeners refrain from evil-hearing.
Augustus William Hare
The real gentleman is one who is gentle in everything, at least in everything that depends on himself in carriage, temper, constructions, aims, desires. He is mild, calm, quiet, even temperate not hasty in judgment, not exorbitant in ambition, not overbearing, not proud, not rapacious, not oppressive.
Augustus William Hare
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