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Good breeding differs, if at all, from high breeding only as it gr

Good breeding differs, if at all, from high breeding only as it gracefully remembers the rights of others, rather than gracefully insists on its own rights. – Thomas Carlyle

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The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious. – Thomas Carlyle

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In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom we have to say, Like People like Government. – Thomas Carlyle

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Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a persons character lies in their own hands. – Anne Frank

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Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them. – Napoleon Bonaparte

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If Id had good discipline, I might have gone into music. – Clint Eastwood

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