"Never speak ill of yourself, your friends will always say enough on that subject."

-- Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

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“One of the greatest gifts I've ever gotten is my daughter.”
“Topography displays no favorites; North's as near as West. More delicate than the historians' are the map-makers' colors.”
“If I'm gonna write songs about my exes, they can write songs about me. That's how it works.”
“As a kid, I thought of myself as a funny person who secretly wanted to be serious, but now I think maybe I'm a serious person who secretly wants to be funny.”
“If it is not profitable for the common good that authority should be retained, it ought to be relinquished.”
“A single inattention may lose a chess game, whereas a single successful approach to a problem, among many which have been relegated to the wastebasket, will make a mathematician's reputation.”
“Tell me a way you think this can work." "We'll find a way," I tell her. "That's not an answer. It's a hope." "Hope's gotten us this far. Not answers.”

Source : David Levithan (2013). “Every Day”, p.126, Egmont UK
“Be patient with everyone, but above all with yourself. I mean do not be disheartened by your imperfections, but always rise up with fresh courage. How are we to be patient in dealing with our neighbour's faults if we are impatient in dealing with our own? He who is fretted by his own failings will not correct them. All profitable correction comes from a calm and peaceful mind.”

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