When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everyone will respect you.― Lao Tzu

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I am not an angel,' I asserted; 'and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself. Mr. Rochester, you must neither expect nor exact anything celestial of me - for you will not get it, any more than I shall get it of you: which I do not at all anticipate.― Charlotte Brontë

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We are finally driven to monogamy not by morality but by exhaustion.

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Do what is right, not what is easy nor what is popular.― Roy T. Bennett

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War does not decide who is right but who is left.

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Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith. - Alexis de Tocqueville

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Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one.

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Wherever you find a great man, you will find a great mother or a great wife standing behind him -- or so they used to say. It would be interesting to know how many great women have had great fathers and husbands behind them.― Dorothy L. Sayers

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We learned about honesty and integrity - that the truth matters... that you don't take shortcuts or play by your own set of rules... and success doesn't count unless you earn it fair and square.

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In the end you should always do the right thing even if it's hard.― Nicholas Sparks

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