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Quote by Thomas Carlyle
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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For all right judgment of any man or things it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad. – Thomas Carlyle

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A person with half volition goes backwards and forwards, but makes no progress on even the smoothest of roads. – Thomas Carlyle

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If money help a man to do good to others, it is of some value but if not, it is simply a mass of evil, and the sooner it is got rid of, the better. – Swami Vivekananda

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It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter because you can invent things. But in photography everything is so ordinary it takes a lot of looking before you learn to see the extraordinary. – David Bailey

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The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means. – Oscar Wilde

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It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect. – Robert Louis Stevenson

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The first proof of a persons incapacity to achieve, is their endeavoring to fix the stigma of failure on others. – B. R. Hayden

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