Weekly Quotes 38

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By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity--another man's I mean.
    -- Mark Twain

The courteous man pines in plenty, like Tantalus up to the chin in
water, and yet thirsty.
    -- Thomas Adams

The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his
own way.
    -- Josh Billings

Reason should direct and appetite obey.
    -- Cicero

Self-trust is the essence of heroism.
    -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The weak can never forgive.  Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
    -- Mahatma Gandhi

Choose thy friends like thy books, few but choice.
    -- James Howell

BONUS QUOTE:
We are students of words: we are shut up in a schools and colleges and
recitation-rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a
bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing.
    -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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