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Character Is Long-standing Habit.

If You Hate Your Enemies, You Will Contract Such A Vicious Habit Of Mind That It Will Break Out Upon Those Who Are Your Friends, Or Those Who Are Indifferent To You.

It Is Circumstance And Proper Measure That Give An Action Its Character, And Make It Either Good Or Bad.

Abstruse Questions Must Have Abstruse Answers.

Whenever Anything Is Spoken Against You That Is Not True, Do Not Pass By Or Despise It Because It Is False; But Forthwith Examine Yourself, And Consider What You Have Said Or Done That May Administer A Just Occasion Of Reproof.