Do not make mistakes about character. Better be cheated in the price than in the quality of goods. - Baltasar Gracian

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When you are writing literary writing, you are communicating something subtextual with emotions and poetry. The prose has to have a voice; it's not just typing. It takes a while to get that voice.

Baltasar Gracian

Do not make mistakes about character. Better be cheated in the price than in the quality of goods.

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Help others solve their problems; standing farther away, you can often see matters more clearly than they do. . . The greatest service you can render someone else is helping him or her help themselves.

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The wise persono would rather see others needing him than thanking him.

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Know how to use evasion. That is how smart people get out of difficulties.

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Attempt easy tasks as if they were difficult, and difficult as if they were easy; in the one case that confidence may not fall asleep, in the other that it may not be dismayed.

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A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.

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Answers come and go, I've found. But the questions? Those remain forever.

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