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A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little c

A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whose timidity prevented them from making a first effort. – Sydney Smith

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Do not try to push your way through to the front ranks of your profession do not run after distinctions and rewards but do your utmost to find an entry into the world of beauty. – Sydney Smith

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Beauty
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Correspondences are like small clothes before the invention of suspenders; it is impossible to keep them up. – Sydney Smith

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Letters
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Manners are like the shadows of virtues, they are the momentary display of those qualities which our fellow creatures love and respect. – Sydney Smith

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respect
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The mansion should not be graced by its master, the master should grace the mansion. – Marcus Tullius Cicero

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Who ever does not respect confidence will never find happiness in their path. – Proverb

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If you must love your neighbor as yourself, it is at least as fair to love yourself as your neighbor. РS̩bastien-Roch Nicolas (Chamfort)

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When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you. – African proverb

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But let judgment run down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream. – Bible

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There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity. – Arthur Schopenhauer

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Romanticism is not just a mode; it literally eats into every life. Women will never get rid of just waiting for the right man. – Anita Brookner

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