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• A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar. -- Lao Tze
• What 's come to perfection perishes. Things learned on earth we shall practise in heave
  Works done least rapidly Art most cherishes....
• In his errors a man is true to type. Observe the errors and you will know the man.
  -- Confucius -- Analects, IV.7...
• A gentleman is a man who can support his own weight on his hands.
• A gentleman is a man who can play the accordion but doesn't.
• The superior man thinks of virtue; the small man thinks of comfort.
  ... -- Confucius (K'ung tsze or Kung Fu Tse) (551-479 BCE)...
• Anything else, sir?" asked the attentive bellhop, trying his best to make the lady and gentleman comfortable in their penthouse suite in the posh hotel.
  "No. No, thank you," replied the gentleman. "Anything for your wife, sir?...
• It is only the benevolent man who is capable of liking or disliking other men.
  -- Confucius, Analects, IV.3...
• A gentleman is a man who wouldn't hit a lady with his hat on.
  -- Evan Esar [ And why not? For why does she have his hat on? Ed.]...