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A Man Who Has The Courage Of His Platitudes Is Always A Successful Man. The Instructed Man Is Ashamed To Pronounce In An Orphic Manner What Everybody Knows, And Because He Is Silent People Think He Is Making Fun Of Them. They Like A Man Who Expresses Their Own Superficial Thoughts In A Manner That Appears To Be Profound. This Enables Them To Feel That They Are Themselves Profound.

People Of Small Calibre Are Always Carping. How Affected So-and-so Is! Don't You Think He Is Silly? He Was Certainly Quite Mistaken About This Or That. They Are Bent On Showing Their Own Superiority, Their Knowledge Or Their Prowess Or Good Breeding.

If Men Were Basically Evil, Who Would Bother To Improve The World Instead Of Giving It Up As A Bad Job At The Outset?

Genius And Virtue Are To Be More Often Found Clothed In Gray Than In Peacock Bright.

Better The Fragrant Herb Of Wit And A Little Cream Of Affability Than All The Pretty Cups In The World.