Be polite to all, but intimate with few.
Interpretation
Be friendly to everyone, but reserve deep connections for a select few.
This quote suggests that while it is important to treat everyone with kindness and respect, one should be selective about whom they allow into their inner circle. Deep relationships require trust and vulnerability, and by being intimate with only a few, one can foster stronger and more meaningful connections.
In practice
This quote can be shared in a speech about building meaningful relationships.
The firmness with which the (American) people have withstood the... abuses of the press, the discernment they have manifested between truth and falsehood, show that they may safely be trusted to hear everything true and false and to form a correct judgment between them.
I, place economy among the first & most important republican virtues, & public debt as the greatest of the dangers to be feared
βWe must make our choice between economy and liberty or confusion and servitude...If we run into such debts, we must be taxed in our meat and drink, in our necessities and comforts, in our labor and in our amusements...if we can prevent the government from wasting the labor of the people, under the pretense of caring for them, they will be happy.
Very many and very meritorious were the worthy patriots who assisted in bringing back our government to its republican tack. To preserve it in that, will require unremitting vigilance.
A nation, as a society, forms a moral person, and every member of it is personally responsible for his society.
Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.
I just think, as women, we have to give ourselves room to be individuals. So when a woman makes a decision for herself, we as women shouldn't set those hardcore boundaries for another woman. Just like we don't want men setting hardcore boundaries for us.
Habitat gives us an opportunity which is very difficult to find: to reach out and work side by side with those who never have had a decent home-but work with them on a completely equal basis. It's not a big-shot, little-shot relationship. It's a sense of equality.
The worst cliques are those which consist of one man.
Until the masculine role is humanized, women will tend to be much better at solving dangerous conflicts.
He is mad, bad and dangerous to know.
I get a little heated when I talk about the past. But I wanted to be clear - I'm not mad at anybody - not anymore.
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