Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.
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A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.
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In farewells we heat above ordinary our affections to the things we forego.
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In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book: the prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk - they are all part of the curriculum.
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