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Perseverance and tact are the two great qualities most valuable fo

Perseverance and tact are the two great qualities most valuable for all those who would climb, but especially for those who have to step out of the crowd. – Benjamin Disraeli

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So long as the laws remain such as they are today, employ some discretion: loud opinion forces us to do so; but in privacy and silence let us compensate ourselves for that cruel chastity we are obliged to display in public. – Marquis De Sade

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Experience was to be taken as showing that one might get a five-pound note as one got a light for a cigarette; but one had to check the friendly impulse to ask for it in the same way. – Henry James

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