“Let us decide on the route that we wish to take to pass our life, and attempt to sow that route with flowers.”
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“It is difficult to bring people to goodness with lessons, but it is easy to do so by example.”
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“Choose what is best, and habit will make it pleasant and easy.”
“Our great and glorious masterpiece is to live appropriately.”
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“Reproof should not exhaust its power upon petty failings.”
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