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Men, as well as women, are much oftener led by their hearts than by their understandings.
Heart
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Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise.
Modesty
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Most people enjoy the inferiority of their best friends.
Friends and Friendship
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Our own self-love draws a thick veil between us and our faults.
Egotism
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Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible.
Perseverance
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Speak of the moderns without contempt, and of the ancients without idolatry.
Literature
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Take care in your minutes, and the hours will take care of themselves.
Time and Time Management
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Take the tone of the company you are in.
Conformity
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The less one has to do, the less time one finds to do it in.
Time and Time Management
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The more one works, the more willing one is to work.
Work
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The only solid and lasting peace between a man and his wife is, doubtless, a separation.
Divorce
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To have frequent recourse to narrative betrays great want of imagination.
Anecdotes
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Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well.
Worth
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When a person is in fashion, all they do is right.
Fashion
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You must look into people, as well as at them.
Character
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun