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• He who reforms himself, has done more towards reforming the public, than a crowd of noisy, impotent patriots.
  -- Lavate...
• The following is a recommendation from the dean at Foley College, a small liberal arts college, to the president of the college.
  "Since college-bound students are increasingly concerned about job prospects after graduation, Foley College should attempt to increase enrollment by promising to find its students jobs after they graduate....
• A man who carries a cat by its tail learns something he can learn in no other way.
• Everything comes to him who waits - save the item he loaned to a friend.
• He who when called upon to speak a disagreeable truth, tells it boldly and has done, is both bolder and milder than he who nibbles in a low voice and never ceases nibbling.
  -- Lavate...
• Depend on no man, on no friend, but him who can depend on himself.
  He only who acts conscientiously towards himself will act so towards others, and vice versa....
• The jest loses its point when he who makes it is the first to laugh.
• He who sedulously attends, pointedly asks, calmly speaks, coolly answers, and ceases when he has no more to say, is in possession of some of the best requisites of man.
  -- Lavate...
• History has much to say on following the proper procedures.
  From a history of the Mexican revolution: "Hildago was later defeated at Guadalajara....