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Don'tcut off your nose to spite your face.

If you are standing upright, don't worry if your shadow is crooked.

It is atrick among the dishonest to offer sacrifices that are not needed,or not possible, to avoid making those that are required.

Compromise,n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

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

Health and Cheerfulness mutually begets each other.

I think we may safely trust a good deal more than we do.

Our distrust is very expensive.

To know how to free oneself is nothing: the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.

Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.

Labour with what zeal we will. Something still remains undone.