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Essential characteristics of a gentleman: The will to put himself in the place of others; the horror of forcing others into positions from which he would himself recoil; and the power to do what seems to him to be right without considering what others may say or think.

John Galsworthy

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It is the continual, unconscious replacement, however fleeting, of oneself by another; the real cement of human life; the everlasting refreshment and renewal.
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First one, then the other, getting the upper hand, and too seldom fusing till the result has the mellowness of full achievement.
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If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one.
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As a man lives and thinks, so he will write.
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A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do, Nothing else.
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And to be stolen away from ourselves by Art is a momentary relaxation from that itching, a minute’s profound, and as it were secret, enfranchisement.
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