#selves

Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you? ↗

— Walt Whitman

#against #aside #disputed #great #learned

The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#contradict #other #people #themselves #well

The beauty of independence, departure, actions that rely on themselves. ↗

— Walt Whitman

#beauty #departure #independence #rely #themselves

Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#each #kingdom #know #more #our

Only the shallow know themselves. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#only #shallow #themselves

It is, therefore, essential that we guard our own thinking and not be among those who cry out against prejudices applicable to themselves, while busy spawning intolerances for others. ↗

— Wendell Willkie

#among #applicable #busy #cry #essential

If we want to talk about freedom, we must mean freedom for others as well as ourselves, and we must mean freedom for everyone inside our frontiers as well as outside. ↗

— Wendell Willkie

#everyone #freedom #frontiers #inside #mean

We cannot, with good conscience, expect the British to set up an orderly schedule for the liberation of India before we have decided for ourselves to make all who live in America free. ↗

— Wendell Willkie

#before #british #cannot #conscience #decided

People who don't use the tools given to them only injure themselves. ↗

— Debra Wilson

#injure #only #people #them #themselves

I gave the couple a hint of a design that would work great with the bones of their home. They weren't ready for it, and they embarrassed themselves and that's too bad. ↗

— Douglas Wilson

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