Genuine good taste consists in saying much in few words, in choosing among our thoughts, in having order and arrangement in what we say, and in speaking with composure.
タグ: words, thoughts, communication, good

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Children are excellent observers, and will often perceive your slightest defects. In general, those who govern children, forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves.
タグ: your, nothing, will, children
There is a set of religious, or rather moral, writings which teach that virtue is the certain road to happiness, and vice to misery in this world. A very wholesome and comfortable doctrine, and to which we have but one objection, namely, that it is not true.
タグ: true, road, world, happiness
Exactness and neatness in moderation is a virtue, but carried to extremes narrows the mind.
タグ: extremes, moderation, virtue, mind
All earthly delights are sweeter in expectation than in enjoyment; but all spiritual pleasures more in fruition than in expectation.
タグ: enjoyment, expectation, more, spiritual
Nothing is more despicable than a professional talker who uses his words as a quack uses his remedies.
タグ: more, professional, nothing, words
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