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		<title>Twain, Mark -- Story (1905-02-02), &#8220;The Czar&#8217;s Soliloquy,&#8221; North American Review, Vol. 180, No. 580 (1905-03)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ah! what could our Family do without the moralist? He has always been our stay, our support, our friend; today he is our only friend. Whenever there has been dark talk of assassination, he has come forward and saved us with his impressive maxim, &#8220;Forbear: nothing politically valuable was ever yet achieved by violence.&#8221; He [&#8230;]]]></description>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Ah! what could our Family do without the moralist? He has always been our stay, our support, our friend; today he is our only friend. Whenever there has been dark talk of assassination, he has come forward and saved us with his impressive maxim, &#8220;Forbear: nothing politically valuable was ever yet achieved by violence.&#8221; He probably believes it. It is because he has by him no child&#8217;s book of world-history to teach him that his maxim lacks the backing of statistics. All thrones have been established by violence; no regal tyranny has ever been overthrown except by violence; by violence my fathers set up our throne; by murder, treachery, perjury, torture, banishment and prison they have held it for four centuries, and by these same arts I hold it today. There is no Romanoff of learning and experience but would reverse the maxim and say: &#8220;Nothing politically valuable was ever yet achieved <i>except</i> by violence.&#8221;</p>
<br><b>Mark Twain</b> (1835-1910) American writer [pseud. of Samuel Clemens]<br>Story (1905-02-02), &#8220;The Czar&#8217;s Soliloquy,&#8221; <i>North American Review</i>, Vol. 180, No. 580 (1905-03) 
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Meant to be the musings of Czar Alexander III, whom Twain detested, about the morality of assassinating people such as himself.
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		<title>Johnson, Samuel -- Essay (1753-11-27), The Adventurer, No. 111</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The evils inseparably annexed to the present condition of man, are so numerous and afflictive, that it has been, from age to age, the task of some to bewail, and of others to solace them; and he, therefore, will be in danger of seeing a common enemy, who shall attempt to depreciate the few pleasures [&#8230;]]]></description>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The evils inseparably annexed to the present condition of man, are so numerous and afflictive, that it has been, from age to age, the task of some to bewail, and of others to solace them; and he, therefore, will be in danger of seeing a common enemy, who shall attempt to depreciate the few pleasures and felicities which nature has allowed us.</p>
<br><b>Samuel Johnson</b> (1709-1784) English writer, lexicographer, critic<br>Essay (1753-11-27), <i>The Adventurer</i>, No. 111 
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		<title>Mencken, H. L. -- A Little Book in C Major, ch.  3, § 10 (1916)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[A prohibitionist is the sort of man one wouldn&#8217;t care to drink with &#8212; even if he drank. Variant: PROHIBITIONIST. The sort of man one wouldn&#8217;t care to drink with, even if he drank. A Book of Burlesques, &#8220;The Jazz Webster&#8221; (1924)]]></description>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A prohibitionist is the sort of man one wouldn&#8217;t care to drink with &#8212; even if he drank.</p>
<br><b>H. L. Mencken</b> (1880-1956) American writer and journalist [Henry Lewis Mencken]<br><i>A Little Book in C Major</i>, ch.  3, § 10 (1916) 
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<blockquote>PROHIBITIONIST. The sort of man one wouldn't care to drink with, even if he drank. <br>
<i><a href="https://archive.org/details/bookburlesques00mencrich/page/n209/mode/2up?q=prohibitionist">A Book of Burlesques</a></i>, "The Jazz Webster" (1924)</blockquote><br>						</span>
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		<title>Stross, Charles -- Iron Sunrise, ch. 18 (2004)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The seeds of evil usually germinated in the footprints of people who knew how everybody else ought to behave and felt the need to tell them so.]]></description>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The seeds of evil usually germinated in the footprints of people who knew how everybody else ought to behave and felt the need to tell them so. </p>
<br><b>Charles "Charlie" Stross</b> (b. 1964) British writer <br><i>Iron Sunrise</i>, ch. 18 (2004) 
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		<title>Jones, Ernest -- &#8220;Criticisms of Psycho-Analytic Treatment,&#8221; Speech, Chicago Neurological and Chicago Medical Societies (18 Jan 1911)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is the people with secret attractions to various temptations who busy themselves most with removing those temptations from other people; really they are defending themselves under the pretext of defending others, because at heart they fear their own weakness. Originally published in the American Journal of the Medical Sciences (Jul 1911). Reprinted in Papers [&#8230;]]]></description>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It is the people with secret attractions to various temptations who busy themselves most with removing those temptations from other people; really they are defending themselves under the pretext of defending others, because at heart they fear their own weakness.</p>
<br><b>Ernest Jones</b> (1879-1958) Welsh neurologist and psychoanalyst<br>&#8220;Criticisms of Psycho-Analytic Treatment,&#8221; Speech, Chicago Neurological and Chicago Medical Societies (18 Jan 1911) 
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Originally published in the <i>American Journal of the Medical Sciences</i> (Jul 1911). Reprinted in <i>Papers on Psycho-Analysis</i>, ch. 12 (1918).						</span>
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		<title>Peter, Lawrence J. -- Peter&#8217;s Quotations (1977)</title>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[The reformer] wants his conscience to be your guide.</p>
<br><b>Lawrence J. Peter</b> (1919-1990) American educator, management theorist<br><i>Peter&#8217;s Quotations</i> (1977) 
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		<title>Thomas a Kempis -- The Imitation of Christ [De Imitatione Christi], Book 1, ch. 16, v.  2 (1.16.2) (c. 1418-27) [tr. Sherley-Price (1952)]</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Strive to be patient; bear with the faults and frailties of others, for you, too, have many faults which others have to bear. If you cannot mould yourself as you would wish, how can you expect other people to be entirely to your liking? [Stude patiens esse in tolerando aliorum defectus, et qualescumque infirmitates, quia [&#8230;]]]></description>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Strive to be patient; bear with the faults and frailties of others, for you, too, have many faults which others have to bear. If you cannot mould yourself as you would wish, how can you expect other people to be entirely to your liking?</p>
<p><em>[Stude patiens esse in tolerando aliorum defectus, et qualescumque infirmitates, quia et tu multa habes, quæ ab aliis oportet tolerari. Si non potes te talem facere qualem vis, quomodo poteris alium habere ad beneplacitum tuum?]</em></p>
<br><b>Thomas à Kempis</b> (c. 1380-1471) German-Dutch priest, author<br><i>The Imitation of Christ [De Imitatione Christi]</i>, Book 1, ch. 16, v.  2 (1.16.2) (c. 1418-27) [tr. Sherley-Price (1952)] 
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(<a href="https://www.thelatinlibrary.com/kempis/kempis1.shtml#:~:text=in%20bonum%20convertere.-,Stude%20patiens%20esse%20in%20tolerando%20aliorum%20defectus%2C%20et%20qualescumque%20infirmitates%2C%20quia%20et%20tu%20multa%20habes%2C%20qu%C3%A6%20ab%20aliis%20oportet%20tolerari.%20Si%20non%20potes%20te%20talem%20facere%20qualem%20vis%2C%20quomodo%20poteris%20alium%20habere%20ad%20beneplacitum%20tuum%3F,-Libenter%20videmus%20alios">Source (Latin)</a>). Alternate translations:<br><br>

<blockquote>Study always that thou mayest be patient in suffering of other men’s defaults, for thou hast many things in thee that others do suffer of thee: and if thou canst not make thyself to be as thou wouldst, how mayest thou then look to have another to be ordered in all things after thy will?<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.219519/page/n87/mode/2up?q=%22study+always+that+thou%22">Whitford/Raynal</a> (1530/1871)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Study always to be patient in bearing other men's defects, for you have many in yourself that others suffer from you, and if you cannot make yourself be as you would, how may you then look to have another regulated in all things to suit your will?<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/imitationofchri200thom/page/48/mode/2up?q=%22be+patient%22">Whitford/Gardiner</a> (1530/1955)]</blockquote><br>



<blockquote>Endeavour thy selfe patiently to bear with any faults and infirmities of others, for that thou thy selfe hast many things that must be borne withall by others. If thou canst not make thy selfe such a one as thou wouldst be, how canst thou expect to have another to thy liking in all things?<br>
[tr. <a href="https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo/A13699.0001.001/1:4.16?rgn=div2;view=fulltext#:~:text=Endeavour%20thy%20selfe,in%20all%20things.">Page</a> (1639), 1.16.6-7]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Remember, that You also have many Failings of your own, by which the Patience of other People will have its turn of being exercised. And if you do (as certainly you cannot but) see this, think how unreasonable it is, to expect you should make others in all particulars, what you would have them to be; when you cannot so much as make your self, what you are sensible you ought to be. <br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/christianspatte00thomgoog/page/n51/mode/2up?q=%22remember%2C+that+You+alfo%22">Stanhope</a> (1696; 1706 ed.)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Endeavor, to be always patient of the faults and imperfections of others; for thou haft many faults and imperfections of thy own, that require a reciprocation of forbearance. If thou art not able to make thyself that which thou wishest to be, how canst thou expect to mould another in conformity to thy will?<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/imitationchrist01kempgoog/page/n72/mode/2up?q=%22Endeavor%2C+to+be+always+patient%22">Payne</a> (1803), 1.16.3]</blockquote><br>
  
<blockquote>Endeavour to be patient in bearing with the defects and infirmities of others, of what sort soever they be; for that thyself also hast many [failings] which must be borne with by others. If thou canst not make thyself such an one as thou wouldest, how canst thou expect to have another in all things to thy liking?<br>
[ed. <a href="https://archive.org/details/ofimitationofchr00thom_0/page/30/mode/2up?q=%22Endeavour+to+be+patient%22">Parker</a> (1841)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Endeavour to be always patient of the faults and imperfections of others, whatever they may be; for thou hast many faults and imperfection of thy own, that require forbearance from others. If thou art not able to make thyself that which thou wishest to be, how canst thou expect to mould another in conformity to thy will? <br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/Of_the_Imitation_of_Jesus_Christ/qBZwsQJdQ2QC?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=%22Endeavour%20to%20be%20always%20patient%22">Dibdin</a> (1851)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Endeavour to be patient in bearing with defects and infirmities in others, of what kind soever; because thou also hast many things which others must bear with. If thou canst not make thyself such as thou wouldst, how canst thou expect to have another according to thy liking?<br>
[ed. <a href="https://archive.org/details/ofimitationofchr00thom_2/page/24/mode/2up?q=%22Endeavour+to+be+patient%22">Bagster</a> (1860)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Endeavour to be patient in bearing with other men’s faults and infirmities whatsoever they be, for thou thyself also hast many things which have need to be borne with by others. If thou canst not make thine own self what thou desireth, how shalt thou be able to fashion another to thine own liking.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://gutenberg.org/cache/epub/1653/pg1653-images.html#chap16:~:text=Endeavour%20to%20be%20patient%20in%20bearing%20with%20other%20men%E2%80%99s%20faults%20and%20infirmities%20whatsoever%20they%20be%2C%20for%20thou%20thyself%20also%20hast%20many%20things%20which%20have%20need%20to%20be%20borne%20with%20by%20others.%20If%20thou%20canst%20not%20make%20thine%20own%20self%20what%20thou%20desireth%2C%20how%20shalt%20thou%20be%20able%20to%20fashion%20another%20to%20thine%20own%20liking.">Benham</a> (1874)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Endeavour to be patient in bearing with the defects and infirmities of others, of what sort soever they be; for that thyself also hast many failings which must be borne with by others. If thou canst not make thyself such an one as thou wouldst, how canst thou expect to have another in all things to thy liking?<br>
[tr. <a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Of_the_Imitation_of_Christ/Book_I/Chapter_XVI#:~:text=Endeavour%20to%20be,to%20thy%20liking%3F">Anon.</a> (1901)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Try to bear patiently with the defects and infirmities of others, whatever they may be, because you also have many a fault which others must endure. If you cannot make yourself what you would wish to be, how can you bend others to your will?<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.leaderu.com/cyber/books/imitation/imb1c11-20.html#RTFToC47:~:text=Try%20to%20bear,to%20your%20will%3F">Croft/Bolton</a> (1940)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Try to be patient in bearing with others’ failings and all kinds of weaknesses, for you too have many which must be put up with by others. If you cannot mould yourself exactly as you would, how can you get another to be satisfying to you?<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/imitationofchris0000unse_r2o4/page/16/mode/2up?q=%22try+to+be+patient%22">Daplyn</a> (1952)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Yes, you do well to cultivate patience in putting up with the shortcomings, the various disabilities of other people; only think how much they have to put up with in you! When you make such a failure of organizing your own life, how can you expect everybody else to come up to your own standards?<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/imitationofchris00knox/page/40/mode/2up?q=%22yes+you+do+well%22">Knox-Oakley</a> (1959)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Try to be patient in bearing with the failings and weaknesses of other people, whatever they may be. You too have many faults, which others have to endure. If you cannot make yourself the kind of person you wish, how can you expect to have someone else to your liking?<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/imitationofchris0000thom_o4e9/page/58/mode/2up?q=%22try+to+be+patient%22">Knott</a> (1962)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Seek always to be tolerant of the shortcomings and failings of others. They also have much to tolerate in you. If you are unable to mould yourself as you wish, how can you expect others to conform to your liking?<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/imitationofchris0000unse_e5i0/page/18/mode/2up?q=%22seek+always+to+be+tolerant%22">Rooney</a> (1979)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Take pains to be patient in bearing all the faults and weaknesses of others, for you too have many flaws that others must put up with. If you cannot make yourself as you would like to be, how can you expect to have another person entirely to your liking? <br> 
[tr. <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Imitation_of_Christ/JI7AA0GAbUgC?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=%22take%20pains%20to%20be%20patient%22">Creasy</a> (1989)]</blockquote><br>						</span>
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		<title>Taylor, Elizabeth -- (Attributed)</title>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they&#8217;re going to have some pretty annoying virtues.</p>
<br><b>Elizabeth Taylor</b> (1932-2011) British-American actress<br>(Attributed) 
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		<title>Russell, Bertrand -- Conquest of Happiness, Part 1, ch.  4 &#8220;Boredom and Excitement&#8221; (1930)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Boredom is therefore a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.]]></description>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Boredom is therefore a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.</p>
<br><b>Bertrand Russell</b> (1872-1970) English mathematician and philosopher<br><i>Conquest of Happiness</i>, Part 1, ch.  4 &#8220;Boredom and Excitement&#8221; (1930) 
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