"The most influential of all educational factors is the conversation in a child's home."
-William Temple
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"The first ingredient in conversation is truth, the next good sense, the third good humor, and the fourth wit."
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"The first glass is for myself, the second for my friends, the third for good humor, and the forth for my enemies."
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"Man's wisdom is his best friend folly his worst enemy."
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"The only way for a rich man to be healthy is by exercise and abstinence, to live as if he were poor."
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"The best rules to form a young man, are, to talk little, to hear much, to reflect alone upon what has passed in company, to distrust one's own opinions, and value others that deserve it."
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