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• Allow no man to be so free with you as to praise you to your face.
  Your vanity by this means will want its food. At the same time your passion for esteem will be more fully gratified...
• What you do when you don't have to, determines what you will be when you can no longer help it.
  Rudyard Kipling...
• Vacation is what you take when you can't take what you've been taking any longer. -- The Lio
• When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive--to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.
  -- Marcus Aureliu...
• Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise. -- Lord Chesterfield
• Ask and you shall receive.
• What do you mean, 'Gordon's alive!'? -- Ming the Mercile
• If you continually give, you will continually receive.
• WELFARE -- The more you deceive the more you receive.