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Men make counterfeit money; in many more cases, money makes counterfeit men.

Sydney J. Harris

By the time a man asks you for advice, he has generally made up his mind what he wants to do, and is looking for confirmation rather than counseling.
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Advice Generally Men Mind
The art of living consists in knowing which impulses to obey and which must be made to obey.
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Art Knowing Made
We may hate a person because he reminds us of someone we feared and disliked when younger; or because we see in him some gross caricature of what we find repugnant in ourself; or because he symbolizes an attitude that seems to threaten us.
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Fear Ourselves Person Someone Younger
A man will lay down his life for his friend but will not sacrifice his eardrums.
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Down Friend Lay Man Sacrifice
The severest test of character is not so much the ability to keep a secret as it is, when the secret is finally out, to refrain from disclosing that you knew it all along.
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Character Refrain Secret Several Tests
More trouble is caused in this world by indiscreet answers than by indiscreet questions.
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Answers Trouble World
There’s no point in burying a hatchet if you’re going to put up a marker on the site.
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Forgiveness Heartbroken Site
The greatest enemy of progress is not stagnation, but false progress.
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Enemy Progress Stagnation
Enemies, as well as lovers, come to resemble each other over a period of time.
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Enemy Lovers Time Love
A ‘penchant for telling the truth’ can cripple a candidates chances faster than being caught in flagrante delicto with the governor’s wife.
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Chance Telling Truth Wife
A university is not, primarily, a place in which to learn how to make a living; it is a place in which to learn how to be more fully a human being, how to draw upon one’s resources, how to discipline the mind and expand the imagination; how to make some sense out of the big world we will shortly be thrown into.
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Discipline Learning Life
People who think they’re generous to a fault usually think that’s their only fault.
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Generosity People Thinking
The loner may be respected, but he is always resented by his colleagues, for he seems to be passing a critical judgment on them, when he may be simply making a limiting statement about himself.
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Loner May Solitude
A loser says that’s the way it’s always been done. A winner says there ought to be a better way.
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Always Done Loser Way
No one should pay attention to a man delivering a lecture or a sermon on his “philosophy of life” until we know exactly how he treats his wife, his children, his neighbors, his friends, his subordinates and his enemies.
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Children Men Philosophy
It’s odd, and a little unsettling, to reflect upon the fact that English is the only major language in which “I” is capitalized; in many other languages “You” is capitalized and the “i” is lower case.” —
SYDNEY J. HARRIS

English Facts Language Littles Unsetting

Men make counterfeit money; in many more cases, money makes counterfeit men.

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