Discretion in speech is more than eloquence.
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If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world.
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It is not what men eat but what they digest that makes them strong not what we gain but what we save that makes us rich not what we read but what we remember that makes us learned not what we preach but what we practice that makes us Christians.
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Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid.
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God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave.
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Mysteries are due to secrecy.
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