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  1. A.C. Grayling _ The Meaning of Things:

    Civility The knowledge of courtesy is a very necessary study; like grace and beauty, it breeds mutual liking. MONTAIGNE
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  2. A.C. Grayling _ The Meaning of Things:

    Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope. HERMAN MELVILLE
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  3. A.C. Grayling _ The Meaning of Things:

    Our repentance is not so much regret for the evil we have done as fear of what might happen to us because of it. LA ROCHEFOUCAULD
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  4. A.C. Grayling _ The Meaning of Things:

    In the preface to his little book of miscellaneous essays called Guesses at Truth, the nineteenth-century cleric Julius Hare wrote, 'I here present you with a few suggestions … little more than glimmerings, I had almost said dreams, of thought … If I am addressing one of that numerous class who read to be told what to think, let me advise you to meddle with this book no further. You wish to buy a house ready furnished; do not come to look for it in a stone quarry. But if you are building up your opinions for yourself, and only want to be provided with the materials, you may meet with many things in these pages to suit you.
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  5. A.C. Grayling _ The Meaning of Things:

    The meaning of things lies not in things themselves, but in out attitudes to them.' ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPÉRY
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  6. A.C. Grayling _ The Meaning of Things:

    One frankness invites a reciprocal frankness, and draws forth discoveries, like wine and love,' wrote Montaigne.
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  7. A.C. Grayling _ The Meaning of Things:

    All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness,' Tennessee Williams observed.
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  8. A.C. Grayling _ The Meaning of Things:

    Without doubt, prudence is a virtue. As the Ashanti say, 'No one tests the depth of a river with both feet.
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  9. A.C. Grayling _ The Meaning of Things:

    Men talk about Bible miracles because there is no miracle in their lives. Cease to gnaw that crust. There is ripe fruit over your head. THOREAU
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  10. A.C. Grayling _ The Meaning of Things:

    Prudence He does well who moors his boat with two anchors. PUBLILIUS SYRUS
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  11. A.C. Grayling _ The Meaning of Things:

    As Ruskin said, it is not what we get but what we become by our endeavours that makes them worthwhile.
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  12. A.C. Grayling _ The Meaning of Things:

    Per ardua ad astra.
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