Half the failures in life arise from pulling in ones horse as he is leaping.
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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
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Every Irishman, the saying goes, has a potato in his head.
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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.
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Man without religion is the creature of circumstance.
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The ancients dreaded death the Christian can only fear dying.
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