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Eloquence is vehement simplicity. - Richard Cecil

Eloquence is vehement simplicity. – Richard Cecil

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If I have made an appointment with you, I owe you punctuality, I have no right to throw away your time, if I do my own. – Richard Cecil

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Punctuality
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Richard Cecil
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Every year of my life I grow more convinced that it is wisest and best to fix our attention on the beautiful and the good, and dwell as little as possible on the evil and the false. – Richard Cecil

Category:
Beauty
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Richard Cecil
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An impossibility does not disturb us until its accomplishment shows what fools we were. – Henry S. Haskins

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Hate the sin and love the sinner. – Mohandas Gandhi

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Miscellaneous

The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist. – Thomas Carlyle, Sir Walter Scott, in London and Westminster Review, 12 November

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Miscellaneous

The passion to get ahead is sometimes born of the fear lest we be left behind. – Eric Hoffer, The Passionate State of Mind, 1954

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Faith is what someone knows to be true, whether they believe it or not. – Flannery OConnor

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That which the Fascists hate above all else, is intelligence. – Miguel de Unamuno

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When a man assumes leadership, he forfeits the right to mercy. – Gennaro Angiulo

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