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| Charles Buxton
A lovely girl is above all rank.
A pretty, silly, self-conceited woman will very often be far more courted, and seemingly far more liked and admired, than a woman of infinitely higher charms. All the while the men do not like her a tenth part as well.
Bad temper is its own scourge. Few things are bitterer than to feel bitter. A man's venom poisons himself more than his victim.
Cervantes speaks of potted wisdom as "short sentences drawn from a long experience."
Christianity is intensely practical. She has no trait more striking than her on common sense.
Concentration alone conquers.
Emulation and imitation are of twin birth.
Experience shows that success is due less to ability than to zeal. The winner is he who gives himself to his work, body and soul. How strangely easy difficult things are!
In life, as in chess, forethought wins.It is curious to see how a self-willed, haughty girl, who sets her father and mother and all at defiance, and can't be managed by anybody, at once finds her master in a baby. Her sister's child will strike the rock and set all her affections flowing.
Proverbs are potted wisdom.
Self-laudation abounds among the unpolished, but nothing can stamp a man more sharply as ill-bred.The essential difference between a good and a bad education is this, that the former draws on the child to learn by making it sweet to him, the latter drives the child to learn, by making it sour to him if he does not.
The first duty to children is to make them happy, If you have not made them so, you have wronged them, No other good they may get can make up for that.The rule in carving holds good as to criticism; never cut with a knife what you can cut with a spoon.The world abhors closeness, and all but admires extravagance; yet a slack hand shows weakness, a tight hand strength.
To make pleasures pleasant shorten them.You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it. |
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