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Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.

Arthur Conan Doyle

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They who have reasoned ignorantly, or who have aimed at effecting their personal ends by flattering the popular feeling, have boldly affirmed that 'one man is as good as another;' a maxim that is true in neither nature, revealed morals, nor political theory.

We have a maxim in the House of Commons, and written on the walls of our houses, that old ways are the safest and surest ways.

There's an old maxim that says, 'Things that work persist,' which is why there's still Cobol floating around.

To avoid entangling alliances has been a maxim of our policy ever since the days of Washington, and its wisdom no one will attempt to dispute.

The maxim, that governments ought to train the people in the way in which they should go, sounds well. But is there any reason for believing that a government is more likely to lead the people in the right way than the people to fall into the right way of themselves?

I shall earnestly and persistently continue to urge all women to the practical recognition of the old Revolutionary maxim. Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God.

Let us be true: this is the highest maxim of art and of life, the secret of eloquence and of virtue, and of all moral authority.