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There is no more important rule of conduct in the world than this:

There is no more important rule of conduct in the world than this: attach yourself as much as you can to people who are abler than you and yet not so very different that you cannot understand them. – G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenberg

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Let your rule in reference to your social desires be this. Pray for the bad, pity the weak, enjoy the good, and reverence both the great and the small, as each playing their part in the divine symphony of the universe. – Professor Blackie

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Young men know the rules, but old men know the exceptions. – Oliver Wendell Holmes

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