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One of the difficult things to give away is kindness - is usually returned

The hardeststep is over the threshold.

It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that submerged truth sometimes comes to top.

Whenyou cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of actionyou should take choose the bolder.

Genius is a long impatience.

Adversityis the foundation of virtue.

Originality is the art of Concealing your Source.

Patriots always talk of dying for their country, and never of killing for their country

Youcannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.

Whenangry, count to ten before you speak; if very angry a hundred.

Neverforget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes onand on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.