Patience is the most necessary quality for business, many a man would rather you heard his story than grant his request.
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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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Never seem wiser, nor more learned, than the people you are with. Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private pocket: and do not merely pull it out and strike it; merely to show that you have one.
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Idleness is only the refuge of weak minds.
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Remember, as long as you live, that nothing but strict truth can carry you through the world, with either your conscience or your honor unwounded.
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There is nothing that people bear more impatiently, or forgive less, than contempt: and an injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.
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