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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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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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The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better. – Thomas Carlyle

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The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life. – Aristotle

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It is not enough to have a good mind the main thing is to use it well. – Rene Descartes

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Good writing is like a windowpane. – George Orwell

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What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our daily lives? – E. M. Forster

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I think there is a great deal of interest still in the Christian faith. – Rowan Williams

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A poets work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep. – Salman Rushdie

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This, and this alone, is Christianity, a universal holiness in every part of life, a heavenly wisdom in all our actions, not conforming to the spirit and temper of the world but turning all worldly enjoyments into means of piety and devotion to God. – William Law

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