#necessary

Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#become #come #courtesy #disagreeable #flatter

That a man be willing, when others are so too, as far forth as for peace and defence of himself he shall think it necessary, to lay down this right to all things; and be contented with so much liberty against other men, as he would allow other men against himself. ↗

— Thomas Hood

#all things #allow #contented #defence #down

I am an engineer, but what I find important and necessary is that you just learn things as you go along. ↗

— Terrence Howard

#am #engineer #find #go #i

Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#elevates #god #limits #man #narrow

To be perfectly happy it does not suffice to possess happiness, it is necessary to have deserved it. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#does #happiness #happy #necessary #perfectly

Men like me are impossible until the day when they become necessary. ↗

— Victor Hugo

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