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" Precaution is better than cure. "
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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" Sowing is not as difficult as reaping. "
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" Men show their character in nothing more clearly than what they think laughable. "
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" Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity. "
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" The hardest thing to see is what is in front of your eyes. "
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" The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim. "
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" A clever man commits no minor blunders. "
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" Which government is the best? The one that teaches us to govern ourselves. "
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" A person hears only what they understand. "
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" The coward only threatens when he is safe. "
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" Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent. "
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" Objects in pictures should so be arranged as by their very position to tell their own story. "
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" The people who are absent are the ideal; those who are present seem to be quite commonplace. "
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" The little man is still a man. "
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" In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm... in the real world all rests on perseverance. "
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" To hard necessity ones will and fancy must conform. "
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" Certain defects are necessary for the existence of individuality. "
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" For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is. "
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" Unlike grown ups, children have little need to deceive themselves. "
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" Hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture. "
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" For just when ideas fail, a word comes in to save the situation. "
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