“Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh.”
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Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it most people aim at it, all people fear it, and few love it unless in themselves. A man must have a good share of wit himself to endure a great share of it in another.
Wear your learning like your watch, in a private pocket and do not pull it out, and strike it, merely to show that you have one.
Men, as well as women, are much oftener led by their hearts than by their understandings.
Remember, as long as you live, that nothing but strict truth can carry you through the world, with either your conscience or your honor unwounded.
