Nothing is more essential to the establishment of manners in a State than that all persons employed in places of power and trust must be men of unexceptionable characters.

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One of the secrets of a happy life is continuous small treats. —Iris Murdoch

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To think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest thing in the world is to act in accordance with your thinking. ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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To think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest thing in the world is to act in accordance with your thinking.

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By seeking and blundering we learn. ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Want of exercise was beginning to affect his health and to give him the weak and excitable character of a young German student.

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I look for the day...when the only criterion of excellence or position shall be the ability and character of the individual; and this time will come.

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Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at. ― Goethe

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The writer's job is to get the main character up a tree, and then once they are up there, throw rocks at them.

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Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes. ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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