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.
SYDNEY J. HARRISMore trouble is caused in this world by indiscreet answers than by indiscreet questions.
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Good teaching must be slow enough so that it is not confusing, and fast enough so that it is not boring.
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And most of the failures in parent-child relationships, from my observation, begin when the child begins to acquire a mind and a will of its own, to make independent decisions and to question the omnipotence or the wisdom of the parent.
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Many married couples separate because they quarrel incessantly, but just as many separate because they were never honest enough or courageous enough to quarrel when they should have.
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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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Marriages we regard as the happiest are those in which each of the partners believes he or she got the best of it.
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More trouble is caused in this world by indiscreet answers than by indiscreet questions.
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If you’re not part of the solution, you’re part of the problem, but the perpetual human predicament is that the answer soon poses its own problems.
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When I hear somebody sigh, ‘Life is hard,’ I am always tempted to ask, ‘Compared to what?’
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The founder of every creed from Jesus Christ to Karl Marx, would be appalled to return to earth and see what has been made of that creed, not by its enemies, but by its most devoted adherents.
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Happiness is a direction, not a place.
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What is much harder to handle is the sense that you have to live up to the mark someone else has set for you. The grades become too important, the competition too frantic, the fear of disappointing those who believe in you turns into an overwhelming nightmare.
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If you cannot endure to be thought in the wrong, you will begin to do terrible things to make the wrong appear right.
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The main discomfort in being a middle-of-the-roader is that you get sideswiped by partisans going in both directions.
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The most important thing in an argument, next to being right, is to leave an escape hatch for your opponent, so that he can gracefully swing over to your side without too much apparent loss of face.
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Men make counterfeit money; in many more cases, money makes counterfeit men.
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