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“If I take care of my character my reputation will take care of itself.”
“Every man has his follies - and often they are the most interesting things he has got.”
“Indecision is like a stepchild: if he doesn't wash his hands he is called dirty if he does he is wasting the water.”
“Tis e'er the wont of simple folk to prize the deed and overlook the motive and of learned folk to discount the deed and lay open the soul of the doer.”
“Learn to say 'No' it will be of more use to you than to be able to read Latin.”
“Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it the tree is the real thing.”
“I'm not the heroic type really. I was beaten up by Quakers.”
“A person's reputation is a mixture of what his friends enemies and relatives say behind his back.”
“Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.”
“Conscience is a treacherous thing and mine behaves badly whenever there is a serious danger of being found out.”
“Too often when conscience tries to speak the line seems to be busy.”
“He liked to like people therefore people liked him.”
“When wealth is lost nothing is lost When health is lost something is lost When character is lost all is lost!”
“Every one is as God made him and often a great deal worse.”
“Talent is nurtured in solitude character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.”
“O Douglas O Douglas! Tender and true.”
“Every man has three characters - that which he exhibits that which he has and that which he thinks he has.”
“Not in the clamor of the crowded street Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng But in ourselves are triumph and defeat.”
“Who knows nothing base Fears nothing known.”
“In men whom men condemn as ill I find so much of goodness still In men whom men pronounce divine I find so much of sin and blot I do not dare to draw a line Between the two where God has not.”
