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Jai Ganesh

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Character Quotes - III

Character Quotes - III

1. You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans. - Ronald Reagan

2. Talent develops in quiet places, character in the full current of human life. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

3. Love, hope, fear, faith - these make humanity; These are its sign and note and character. - Robert Browning

4. A man's true character comes out when he's drunk. - Charlie Chaplin

5. The most important thing for a young man is to establish a credit... a reputation, character. - John D. Rockefeller

6. The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom. - Plato

7. Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion. - Aristotle

8. When hypocrisy is a character trait, it also affects one's thinking, because it consists in the negation of all the aspects of reality that one finds disagreeable, irrational or repugnant. - Octavio Paz.

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It appears to me that if one wants to make progress in mathematics, one should study the masters and not the pupils. - Niels Henrik Abel.

Nothing is better than reading and gaining more and more knowledge - Stephen William Hawking.