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Any Fool Can Try To Defend His Mistakes - And Most Fools Do - But It Gives One A Feeling Of Nobility To Admit One's Mistakes. By Fighting, You Never Get Enough, But By Yielding, You Get More Than You Expected.

The Practice Of Patience Toward One Another, The Overlooking Of One Another's Defects, And The Bearing Of One Another's Burdens Is The Most Elementary Condition Of All Human And Social Activity In The Family, In The Professions, And In Society.

Everyone Who Comes Within The Reach Of Your Knowledge Is, As It Were, On Trial In Your Mind. It Is Easy To Be An Unjust, Ignorant, And Even A Merciless Judge. The Real Character Of The Actions Of Others Depends In Great Measure On The Motives That Prompt Them, And These Motives Are Unknown To You.

A Gentleman Has His Eyes On All Those Present; He Is Tender Toward The Bashful, Gentle Toward The Distant, And Merciful Toward The Absent.

To Be Outspoken When Truth Is Under Attack, When Charity Is Being Bruise, Or When Important Issues Of Life Are At Stake Is A Good And Courageous Thing. To Be Outspoken When Nothing Is At Stake Except The Feelings Of Someone Else Is A Small And Contemptible Thing.