One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently … - Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

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Reflect each day on all you have to be grateful for and you will receive more to be grateful for.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error.

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As it has been finely expressed, "Principle is a passion for truth. " And as an earlier and homelier writer hath it, "The truths we believe in are the pillars of our world.

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Happy is the man who hath never known what it is to taste of fame -to have it is a purgatory, to want it is a Hell!

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