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Quote by William Temple
The first ingredient in conversation is truth, the next good sense

The first ingredient in conversation is truth, the next good sense, the third good humor, and the fourth wit. – William Temple

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The most influential of all educational factors is the conversation in a childs home. – William Temple

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You may keep your beauty and your health, unless you destroy them yourself, or discourage them to stay with you, by using them ill. – William Temple

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Beauty
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The best rules to form a young man, are, to talk little, to hear much, to reflect alone upon what has passed in company, to distrust ones own opinions, and value others that deserve it. – William Temple

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The nation that complacently and fearfully allows its artists and writers to become suspected rather than respected is no longer regarded as a nation possessed with humor or depth. – James Thurber

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Its self-effacing, its hard-luck, the shtetl stories. All those Coasters things are an amalgam of Yiddish and black humor. – Jerry Leiber

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Humor

Using no control and using humor will build a relationship and make a dent to where the client puts the counselor in their quality world and then begins to relate and seek out the counselor. Effective therapy begins with the acceptance of the therapist into the clients quality world. – William Glasser

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Humor

It doesnt take many people to have a bad sense of humor to get in trouble at a corporation. – Scott Adams

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Humor

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Hes a good tough producer, yes. But I dont think that hes unreasonable unless he feels threatened. And when somebodys in your home, I think everybody in the home gets threatened. – Liza Minnelli

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My view is pensioners dont have the one option that people of working age have. They cant really increase their income, because they are no longer able to work. – Iain Duncan Smith

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I cant remember a time when my mom didnt work. She has forever been on the move: a go-getter. When my brother Adel and I had a paper route as kids, my mom would get up before us at the crack of dawn to drop off the Washington Post at different corners. – Hoda Kotb

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Dont expect anyone else to support you. Maybe youll have a trust fund. Maybe youll have a wealthy spouse. But you never know when either of them might run out. – Mary Schmich

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