"To be humble to superiors is a..." - Quote by Benjamin Franklin
To be humble to superiors is a duty, to equals courtesy, to inferiors nobleness.
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“Tomorrow, every Fault is to be amended; but that Tomorrow never comes.”
“I think also, that general virtue is more probably to be expected and obtained from the education of youth, than from exhortations of adult persons; bad habits and vices of the mind being, like diseases of the body, more easily prevented than cured. I think moreover, that talents for the education of youth are the gift of God; and that he on whom they are bestowed, whenever a way is opened for use of them, is as strongly called as if he heard a voice from heaven.”
“Great beauty, great strength, and great riches are really and truly of no great use; a right heart exceeds all”