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Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficultstill, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

Only the educated are free.

You can outdistance that which is running after you, but not what is running insideyou.

Gossip is the art of saying nothing, in a manner that leaves nothing unsaid

Neversay more than is necessary.

Man show their character in nothing more clearly than by what they think laughable.

Badplanning on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part.

Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Knowledge is of two kinds, we know a subject ourselves or we know where we can get information upon it.

The talker will lead the dog to the meat market.

You gotto be very careful if you don't know where you're going, because you mightnot get there.