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-- Sir Edmund Hillary

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The real secret of happiness is not what you have or what you receive; it's what you share



When it comes to giving, some people stop at nothing.



You can no more give what you haven't learned than you can come back from a place you've never been.



You make a living by what you get, but you make a life by what you give.



An honest man is the best thing on the sod; but a mother and her babe is the noblest work of God.



Honesty is a question of right or wrong, not a matter of policy.



Honesty shines like a light through your eyes.



If you follow only one rule, let it be this one: Be yourself. The really strong boy-girl relationships are based on what people really are, not on what they pretend to be.



Look a man in the eye and say what you really think, don't just smile at him and say what you're supposed to think.



On this mounting the scaffold to be beheaded: ''I pray you Master Lieutenant, see me safely up, and for my coming down, let me shift for myself.'' To the executioner: ''Pick up thy spirits, Man, and be not afraid to do thy office; my neck is very short; take heed, therefore thou strike not awry, for saving of thy honesty.''



There is no right way to do something wrong.



Whether a fellow winds up with a nest egg or a goose egg depends a heap on the kind of chick he married.



A good example is the best sermon.



Benevolence It is the glory of the true religion that it inculcates and inspires a spirit of benevolence. It is a religion of charity, which none other ever was. Christ went about doing good; he set the example to his disciples, and they abounded in it



Children are natural mimics -- they act like their parents in spite of every attempt to teach them good manners.