"No man is bound to be rich or great, - no, nor to be wise; but every man is bound to be honest."

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Source : Sir Benjamin Rudyerd, Benjamin Rudyerd (capt.) (1841). “Memoirs of Sir Benjamin Rudyerd: Containing His Speeches and Poems. To which are Added the Letters of His Great-great-grandson Benjamin Rudyerd”, p.130

Benjamin Rudyerd

#Wise Quotes #Honesty Quotes #Men Quotes

“If Unix could present the same face, the same capabilities, on machines of many different types, it could serve as a common software environment for all of them.”
“I had an essence in my life that I was nothing.”
“Every libel, which is called famosus libellus, is made either against a private man, or against a public person. If it be against a private man, it deserves a severe punishment.”

Source : 77 Eng. Rep. 250, 1605.
“When I woke up I was naked. I have this one oddball idiosyncrasy: Sometimes in my sleep I take off all my clothes.”
“I know thereâ€™s evil in the world, and there always has been. But you donâ€™t need to believe in Satan or demons to explain it. Human beings are perfectly capable of evil all by themselves.”
“Education keeps the key of life; and liberal education insures the first conditions of freedom,--namely, adequate knowledge and accustomed thought.”
“One of the greatest pleasures of my life has been that I have never stopped learning about Good Cooking and Good Food”
“Our planning system was dynamite when we first put it in. The thinking was fresh; the form mattered little. It was idea oriented. We then hired a head of planning, and he hired two vice presidents, and then he hired a planner; and the books got thicker, and the printing more sophisticated, and the covers got harder, and the drawings got better.”

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