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Be wiser than other people, if you can; but do not tell them so. -

Be wiser than other people, if you can; but do not tell them so. – Lord Chesterfield

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The mere brute pleasure of reading — the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing. – Lord Chesterfield

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We are ashamed to seem evasive in the presence of a straightforward man, cowardly in the presence of a brave one, gross in the eyes of a refined one, and so on. We always imagine, and in imagining share, the judgments of the other mind. – Charles Horton Cooley

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Be discreet in all things, and so render it unnecessary to be mysterious. – Duke of Wellington Arthur Wellesley

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If you are pained by external things, it is not they that disturb you, but your own judgment of them. And it is in your power to wipe out that judgment now. – Marcus Aurelius

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Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins. – American Indian Proverb

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