No man can possibly improve in any company for which he has not respect enough to be under some degree of restraint
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Be wiser than other people if you can, but do not tell them so.
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In order to judge of the inside of others, study your own for men in general are very much alike, and though one has one prevailing passion, and another has another, yet their operations are much the same and whatever engages or disgusts, pleases,
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Hear one side and you will be in the dark. Hear both and all will be clear.
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The more one works, the more willing one is to work.
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Never hold anyone by the button or the hand in order to be heard out for if people are unwilling to hear you, you had better hold your tongue than them.
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