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«Whoever cultivates the golden mean avoids both the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace.»
«Variability is one of the virtues of a woman. It avoids the crude requirement of polygamy. So long as you have one good wife you are sure to have a spiritual harem.»
Author: G. K. Chesterton
(Critic, Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
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«Pure reason avoids extremes, and requires one to be wise in moderation.»
«The good seaman weathers the storm he cannot avoid, and avoids the storm he cannot weather»
«The wise man avoids evil by anticipating it.»
«The mark of the man of the world is absence of pretension. He does not make a speech; he takes a low business-tone, avoids all brag, is nobody, dresses plainly, promises not at all, performs much, speaks in monosyllables, hugs his fact. He calls his employment by its lowest name, and so takes from evil tongues their sharpest weapon. His conversation clings to the weather and the news, yet he allows himself to be surprised into thought, and the unlocking of his learning and philosophy.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
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«The correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your friend says nothing, and avoids your eye»
Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
(Author, Essayist, Poet)
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