Experience shows that success is due less to ability than to zeal.
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The first duty to children is to make them happy. If you have not made them so, you have wronged them. No other good they may get can make up for that.Charles Buxton
You have not fulfilled every duty unless you have fulfilled that of being cheerful and pleasant.
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Few things are more bitter than to feel bitter.
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Self-laudation abounds among the unpolished, but nothing can stamp a man more sharply as ill-bred.
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Silence is sometimes the severest criticism.
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