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The first ingredient in conversation is truth, the next good sense, the third good humor, and the fourth wit.

- William Temple
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The only way for a rich man to be healthy is by exercise and abstinence, to live as if he were poor.

Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of ages through which they passed.

Our present time is indeed a criticizing and critical time, hovering between the wish, and the inability to believe. Our complaints are like arrows shot up into the air at no target: and with no purpose they only fall back upon our own heads and destroy ourselves.

The problem of evil... Why does God permit it? Or, if God is omnipotent, in which case permission and creation are the same, why did God create it?

Authority is by nothing so much strengthened and confirmed as by custom; for no man easily distrusts the things which he and all men have been always bred up to.

There cannot live a more unhappy creature than an ill-natured old man, who is neither capable of receiving pleasures, nor sensible of conferring them on others.

The first glass is for myself, the second for my friends, the third for good humor, and the forth for my enemies.

The most influential of all educational factors is the conversation in a child's home.

The best rules to form a young man, are, to talk little, to hear much, to reflect alone upon what has passed in company, to distrust one's own opinions, and value others that deserve it.

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The first ingredient in conversation is truth, the next good sense, the third good humor, and the fourth wit.

The first ingredient in conversation is truth, the next good sense, the third good humor, and the fourth wit.

The first ingredient in conversation is truth, the next good sense, the third good humor, and the fourth wit.

The first ingredient in conversation is truth, the next good sense, the third good humor, and the fourth wit.

The first ingredient in conversation is truth, the next good sense, the third good humor, and the fourth wit.

The first ingredient in conversation is truth, the next good sense, the third good humor, and the fourth wit.

The first ingredient in conversation is truth, the next good sense, the third good humor, and the fourth wit.

The first ingredient in conversation is truth, the next good sense, the third good humor, and the fourth wit.

The first ingredient in conversation is truth, the next good sense, the third good humor, and the fourth wit.

The first ingredient in conversation is truth, the next good sense, the third good humor, and the fourth wit.

The first ingredient in conversation is truth, the next good sense, the third good humor, and the fourth wit.

The first ingredient in conversation is truth, the next good sense, the third good humor, and the fourth wit.

The first ingredient in conversation is truth, the next good sense, the third good humor, and the fourth wit.

The first ingredient in conversation is truth, the next good sense, the third good humor, and the fourth wit.

The first ingredient in conversation is truth, the next good sense, the third good humor, and the fourth wit.