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“By fighting you never get enough, but by yielding you get more than you expected.”
― How to Win Friends & Influence People
― How to Win Friends & Influence People
“Try leaving a friendly trail of little sparks of gratitude on your daily trips. You will be surprised how they will set small flames of friendship that will be rose beacons on your next visit.”
― How To Win Friends and Influence People
― How To Win Friends and Influence People
“I once ventured to say to an old clergyman who was voicing this sort of patriotism, "But, sir, aren't we told that every people thinks its own men the bravest and its own women the fairest in the world?" He replied with total gravity—he could not have been graver if he had been saying the Creed at the altar—"Yes, but in England it's true.”
― The Four Loves
― The Four Loves
“Benjamin Franklin, tactless in his youth, became so diplomatic, so adroit at handling people, that he was made American Ambassador to France. The secret of his success? “I will speak ill of no man,” he said, “ … and speak all the good I know of everybody.”
― How To Win Friends and Influence People
― How To Win Friends and Influence People
“A man convinced against his will
Is of the same opinion still”
― How to Win Friends & Influence People
Is of the same opinion still”
― How to Win Friends & Influence People
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