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- You can tell the character of every man when you see how he receives praise.
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Seneca - Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
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Samuel Butler - Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
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Abraham Lincoln - Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength, pleads no excuse of impossibility for it thinks all things lawful for itself, and all things possible.
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Thomas a Kempis - Above all, I would teach him to tell the truth ... Truth-telling, I have found, is the key to responsible citizenship. The thousands of criminals I have seen in 40 years of law enforcement have had one thing in common Every single one was a liar.
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J. Edgar Hoover - Actual aristocracy cannot be abolished by any law all the law can do is decree how it is to be imparted and who is to acquire it.
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G. C. Lichtenberg