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• Never hold anyone by the button or the hand in order to be heard ou
  for if people are unwilling to hear you, you had better hold your tongue than them....
• Wizards are constantly subject to negative publicity.
  A case in point. One elderly wizard of my acquaintance, whenever he was bothered by unexpected guests, would immediately cast one of three spells upon them, either turning them to stone, transforming them into segmented worms, or blasting them entirely out of the kingdom....
• Be wiser than other people if you can, but do not tell them so. -- Lord Chesterfield (to his son)
• The great rule is not to talk about money with people who have much more or much less than you.
  -- Katharine Whiteho...
• When in mixed company, you can talk about what a great ride you had the last time you were on your Bicycle.
  -- Reasons why a bicycle is better than a woman number 29...
• The insolent civility of a proud man is, if possible, more shocking than his rudeness could be
  because he shows you, by his manner, that he thinks it mere condescension in him...
• Every man is apt to form his notions of things difficult to be apprehended, or less familiar, from their analogy to things which are more familiar.
  Thus, if a man bred to the seafaring life, and accustomed to think and talk only of matters relating to navigation, enters into discourse upon any other subjec...
• Associate with men of good quality, if you esteem your own reputatio
  it is better to be alone than in bad company. George Washingto...
• You get more than you give when you give more than you get.
  If you don't want any, than don't give any, and you will get even less back....