“Never undertake anything for which you wouldn't have the courage to ask the blessings of heaven”
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“Never undertake anything for which you wouldn't have the courage to ask the blessings of heaven”
“Every man has his moral backside which he refrains from showing unless he has to and keeps covered as long as possible with the trousers of decorum”
“Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much”
“Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.”
“To love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world, and the seed-plot of all other virtues”
“Trust no future, however pleasant! Let the dead past bury its dead! Act, act in the living present! Heart within and God overhead”
“When the house is on fire good girls have to get out as well as the bad ones”
“You cannot slander human nature; it is worse than words can paint it.”
“A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.”