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    There is a sort of veteran woman of condition, who, having lived always in the grand monde, and having possibly had some gallantries, together with the experience of five and twenty or thirty years, form a young fellow better than all the rules that can be given him. Wherever you go, make some of those women your friends; which a very little matter will do. Ask their advice, tell them your doubts or difficulties as to your behavior; but take great care not to drop one word of their experience; for experience implies age, and the suspicion of age, no woman, let her be ever so old, ever forgives.

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It is not the facts which guide the conduct of men, but their opinions about facts; which may be entirely wrong. We can only make them right by discussion.

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Start slow and taper off.

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The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich. Consequently, the modern poor are not pitied but written off as trash. The twentieth-century consumer economy has produced the first culture for which a beggar is a reminder of nothing.

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When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.

When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.

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Be glad today. Tomorrow may bring tears. Be brave today. The darkest night will pass. And golden rays will usher read more

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Never seem wiser, nor more learned, than the people you are with. Wear your learning, like your watch, in a read more

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No one is free who does not lord over himself.

No one is free who does not lord over himself.

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Two souls with but a single thought, Two hearts that beat as one.

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