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An expert gossiper knows how much to leave out of a conversation

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Gossip is sometimes referred to as halitosis of the mind

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To live so that you would not be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip, is to have lived well

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Great men are true men, the men in whom nature has succeeded. They are not extraordinary - they are in the true order. It is the other species of men who are not what they ought to be.

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All great men are gifted with intuition. They know without reasoning or analysis, what they need to know.

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The reason why great men meet with so little pity or attachment in adversity, would seem to be this: the friends of a great man were made by his fortune, his enemies by himself, and revenge is a much more punctual paymaster than gratitude.

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The superior man is modest in his speech but exceeds in his actions.

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No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.

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The measure of a master is his success in bringing all men around to his opinion twenty years later.

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The lights of stars that were extinguished ages ago still reaches us. So it is with great men who died centuries ago, but still reach us with the radiations of their personalities.

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