Good breeding differs, if at all, from high breeding only as it gracefully remembers the rights of others, rather than gracefully insists on its own rights.
Thomas Carlyle
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- Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.
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- Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.
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