“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.”
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The heart never grows better by age I fear rather worse, always harder. A young liar will be an old one, and a young knave will only be a greater knave as he grows older.
Never seem more learned than the people you are with. Wear your learning like a pocket watch and keep it hidden. Do not pull it out to count the hours, but give the time when you are asked.
I find, by experience, that the mind and the body are more than married, for they are most intimately united and when one suffers, the other sympathizes.
Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.
