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• "As your enemies and your friends, so are you."
  By: Johann Kaspar Lavater (John Caspar Lavater)
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• "As the present character of a man, so his past, so his future. Who recollects distinctly his past adventures knows his destiny to come."
  By: Johann Kaspar Lavater (John Caspar Lavater)
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• "Actions, looks, words, steps from the alphabet by which you may spell characters."
  By: Johann Kaspar Lavater (John Caspar Lavater)
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• "The qualities we have do not make us so ridiculous as those which we affect to have. [Fr., On n'est jamais si ridicule par les qualites que l'on a que par celles que l'on affecte d'avoir.]"
  By: Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld, Maximes (134)
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• "We are sometimes as different from ourselves as we are from others."
  By: Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld
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• "A team that has character doesn't need stimulation."
  By: Tom Landry
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• "Circumstances form the character; but, like petrifying matters, they harden while they form."
  By: Walter Savage Landor
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• "Incivility is not a Vice of the Soul, but the effect of several Vices; of Vanity, Ignorance of Duty, Laziness, Stupidity, Distraction, Contempt of others, and Jealousy."
  By: Jean de la Bruyere, The Characters or Manners of the Present Age (vol. II, ch. XI)
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• "Physiognomy is not a guide that has been given us by which to judge of the character of men: it may only serve us for conjecture. [Fr., La physionomie n'est pas une regle qui nous soit donnee pour juger des hommes; elle nous peut servir de conjecture.]"
  By: Jean de la Bruyere, Les Caracteres (XII)
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• "To know a people's character, we must see it at its homes, and look chiefly to the humbler abodes where that portion of the people dwells which makes the broad basis of the national prosperity."
  By: Louis Kossuth
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• "Oh, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet Till earth and sky stand presently at God's great judgment seat; But there is neither East nor West, border nor breed nor birth When two strong men stand face to face, tho' they come from the ends of the earth!"
  By: Rudyard Kipling, Barrack-Room Ballads--Ballad of East and West
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• "E'en as he trod that day to God, So walked he from his birth, In simpleness, and gentleness and honor And clean mirth."
  By: Rudyard Kipling, Barrack-Room Ballads (dedication to Wolcott Balestier)
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• "He is truly great that is little in himself, and that maketh no account of any height of honors."
  By: Thomas a Kempis, Imitation of Christ (bk. I, ch. III)
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• "Every man has three characters--that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has."
  By: Alphonse Karr (Jean Baptiste Alphonse Karr)
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• "No one ever became thoroughly bad all at once. [Lat., Nemo repente venit turpissimus.]"
  By: Juvenal (Decimus Junius Juvenal), Satires (II, 33)
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• "The heart to conceive, the understanding to direct, or the hand to execute."
  By: Junius (pseudonym, possibly of Sir Philip Francis), City Address and the King's Answer (letter XXXVII)
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