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No more important duty can be urged upon those who are entering the great theater of life than simple loyalty to their best convictions.

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There is always room for a man of force, and he makes room for many.

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Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but that mark of a fake messiah.

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Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing.

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He is great who confers the most benefits.

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There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.

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Men have become the tools of their tools.

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Silence is one of the great arts of conversation, as allowed by Cicero himself, who says, "there is not only an art, but an eloquence in it." A well bred woman may easily and effectually promote the most useful and elegant conversation without speaking a word. The modes of speech are scarcely more variable than the modes of silence.

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I think the first virtue is to restrain the tongue; he approaches nearest to gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right.

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The unspoken word never does harm.

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