"What the superior man seeks is in himself; what the small man seeks is in others." The Analects of Confucius
Man and woman and speech and deed and city and object should be honored with praise if praiseworthy and incur blame if unworthy, for it is an equal error and mistake to blame the praisable and to praise the blamable. Gorgias
Train up a fig-tree in the way it should go, and when you are old sit under the shade of it. Dombey and Son
Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. There's no better rule. Great Expectations
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