To my great-grandfather I owed the advice to dispense with the education of the schools and have good masters at home instead - and to realize that no expense should be grudged for this purpose.
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How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks.
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Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.
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Consider that thou dost not even understand whether men are doing wrong or not, for many things are done with a certain reference to circumstance. And, in short, a man must learn a great deal to enable him to pass a correct judgment on another man's acts.
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Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely.
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