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They teach the morals of a whore, and the manners of a dancing master. – Samuel Johnson

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Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it. – Samuel Johnson

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Avarice is generally the last passion of those lives of which the first part has been squandered in pleasure, and the second devoted to ambition. He that sinks under the fatigue of getting wealth, lulls his age with the milder business of saving it. – Samuel Johnson

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The chains of habit are generally too small to be felt until they are too strong to be broken. – Samuel Johnson

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It is easier to exemplify values than teach them. – Theodore Hesburgh

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Folks dont like to have somebody around knowing more than they do. It aggravates em. Youre not gonna change any of them by talking right, theyve got to want to learn themselves, and when they dont want to learn theres nothing you can do but keep your mouth shut or talk their language. – Harper Lee

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It is not so much the example of others we imitate as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words. – Eric Hoffer

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Example moves the world more than doctrine. The great exemplars are the poets of action, and it makes little difference whether they be forces for good or forces for evil. – Henry Miller

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