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Jai Ganesh

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Character Quotes - VI

Character Quotes - VI

1. When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character. - W. Somerset Maugham

2. Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

3. Character is a journey, not a destination. - William J. Clinton

4. For my own part, I wish the bald eagle had not been chosen the representative of our country. He is a bird of bad moral character. He does not get his living honestly. - Benjamin Franklin

5. Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own. - Charles de Gaulle

6. Don't let your special character and values, the secret that you know and no one else does, the truth - don't let that get swallowed up by the great chewing complacency. - Aesop

7. When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature. - Ernest Hemingway

8. Industry, thrift and self-control are not sought because they create wealth, but because they create character. - Calvin Coolidge.

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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.

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