“Whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do it well whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself completely in great aims and in small I have always thoroughly been in earnest.”
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I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it.
Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he's well dressed. There ain't much credit in that.
To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.
A boy's story is the best that is ever told.