As the sword of the best tempered metal is most flexible, so the truly generous are most pliant and courteous in their behavior to their inferiors.
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Associate with men of judgment, for judgment is found in conversation, and we make another man's judgment ours by frequenting his company.
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There is nothing that so much gratifies an ill tongue as when it finds an angry heart.
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