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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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A comfortable house is a great source of happiness. It ranks immediately after health and a good conscience. – Sydney Smith

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In composing, as a general rule, run your pen through every other word you have written; you have no idea what vigor it will give your style. – Sydney Smith

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Brevity
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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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What Id say about that is that we must respect homosexuals in the church. Ive got many homosexual friends, the issue is not in any way a homophobic reaction on my part. – George Carey

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I have a great deal of respect and admiration for people who put themselves on the line. – Major Owens

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To be loved at first sight, a man should have at the same time something to respect and something to pity in his face. – Stendhal

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If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. – Abraham Lincoln

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Heroism is the divine relation which, in all times, unites a great man to other men. – Thomas Carlyle

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Have we not come to such an impasse in the modern world that we must love our enemies – or else? The chain reaction of evil – hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars – must be broken, or else we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation. – Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Her hair was white as snow, and the tears of ninety years seemed to have made deep furrows in her cheeks. – Charles Lanman, “Musings,” 1840

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Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few. – George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman, “Maxims: Education,” 1905

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