Find fault when you must find fault in private, and if possible sometime after the offense, rather than at the time.
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It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.Sydney Smith
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Thank God for tea What would the world do without tea How did it exist I am glad I was not born before tea.
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To do anything in this world worth doing, we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in, and scramble through as well as we can.
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The Smiths never had any arms, and have invariably sealed their letters with their thumbs.
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To take Macaulay out of literature and society and put him in the House of Commons, is like taking the chief physician out of London during a pestilence.
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