"The gentleman calls attention to the good points in others; he does not call attention to their defects. The small man does just the reverse of this."

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Write on your doors the saying wise and old, "Be bold! be bold!" and everywhere - "Be bold; Be not too bold!" Yet better the excess Than the defect; better the more than less; Better like Hector in the field to die, Than like a perfumed Paris turn and fly.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow