Unfaithfulness in the keeping of an appointment is an act of clear dishonesty. You may as well borrow a person's money as his time.
¶ (Attributed)
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Horace Mann (1796-1859) American educator
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 10 years ago.
¶ (Attributed)
Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.
¶ Baccalaureate address, Antioch College, Ohio (1859)
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