Civilization, in a sly

Civilization, in a sly
Civilization, in a sly way, is a suspicion that the other fellow may be right.
  

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A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after while he gets to know something.
It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier tobe sometimes cheated than not to trust.
Modesty is the clothing of talent.
Work without faith is like at attempt to reach a bottom-less pit.
Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficultstill, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.
In thefield of observation, chance favors only theprepared minds.
Slander cannot destroy an honest man: when the flood recedes the rock is there.
Happiness is the wondrous commodity, the more your give; the more you have.
Where love rules, there is no will to power; and wherepower predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of theother.
Thepeak efficiency of knowledge and strategy is to make conflict unnecessary.
Thoroughnesscharacterizes all successful men. Genius is the art of taking infinite pains.All great achievement has been characterized by extreme care, infinitepainstaking, even to the minutest detail.
Learning must be had, but in the second place, as subsequent only to greater qualities.