Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.
Aristotle
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- Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.
- Education is the best provision for old age.
- Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.
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