The cautious through fear guard against existing evils and dangers; the wary are suspicious and guard against deception and the artifices of designing men; the circumspect carefully weigh and deliberate in matters of immediate concern.

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"Kindness is the substance of politeness. There is neither obsequiousness nor arrogance in the nature of a true gentleman. A graceful behavior with both inferiors and superiors is always safe. Let not graceful self-possession descend into flippancy or impertinence. Gentleness is the force by which the tiny daffodil in spring raises and pierces the cloud." Smiles.

"The great man usually makes the opportunities that he appears to find."

To abate is to diminish in force or to destroy; to subside is to relapse into a quiet state.

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"Good-nature is more agreeable in conversation than wit, and gives a certain air to the countenance which is more amiable than beauty. It shows in the fairest light, takes off in some measure from the deformity of vice, and makes even folly and impertinence supportable." - Addison.

A concise statement is brief; a condensed statement is compact in thought; a terse statement is sharp, pointed, and pithy.

"Recovery is one's own act; restoration is the act of another." Recovery of property is good fortune. Its restoration is an act of justice.

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"Cut off the causes, and the effects will cease." Dryden. "Good reasons must of force give way to better." -Shakespeare. "Every principle that is a motive to good actions ought to be encouraged." Addison.

A defendant defends himself; a defender defends another. “Patrick Henry was beyond doubt the ablest defender of criminals in Virginia."

Wirt. "The one sole object of education, properly understood, is not to make a gentleman, or a lawyer, or a mechanic, or a farmer, but to draw out to their utmost limits all the susceptibilities of our threefold nature, -intellect, heart, and will; and the product of this true discipline is not a scholar, nor a philosopher, nor an artist, but a fully developed man."- Tuefft.

Nas'ci [na'tus] (na'tur) = to be born.