Avoid witticisms at the expense of Others.

Horace Mann
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  2. A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally. - Oscar Wilde

  3. Big words from a guy who's trussed up like a turkey. What are you going to do, wobble over here like an upside- down turtle to snap me in half?"" The logistics of breaking you are easy. The only question is when. - Susan Ee

  4. To have a viable civilization, people have to have a benign government, a semblance of education, spare time, imagination, and manners - Jonathan Chamberlain Williams

  5. For a poet he threw a very accurate milk bottle. - Ernest Hemingway

More Quotes By Horace Mann
  1. Doing nothing for others is the undoing of ourselves.

  2. Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.

  3. Do not think of knocking out another person's brains because he differs in opinion from you. It would be as rational to knock yourself on the head because you differ from yourself ten years ago.

  4. Ignorance breeds monsters to fill up the vacancies of the soul that are unoccupied by the verities of knowledge.

  5. Education...beyond all other devices of human origin, is a great equalizer of conditions of men --the balance wheel of the social machinery... It does better than to disarm the poor of their hostility toward the rich; it prevents being poor.

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