If it requires great tact to speak to the purpose, it requires no less to know when to be silent.
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Love often leads on to ambition, but seldom does one return from ambition to love.
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There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness.
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Those who occupy their minds with small matters, generally become incapable of greatness.
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