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- A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742 - 1799)
- To obtain a man's opinion of you, make him mad.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809 - 1894)
- Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
- The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato - the best part under ground.
- Thomas Overbury (1581 - 1613)
- Without discipline, there's no life at all.
- Katharine Hepburn (1907 - 2003)
- Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806 - 1861)
- It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.
- Robert H. Goddard (1882 - 1945)
- Be wiser than other people, if you can, but do not tell them so.
- Lord Chesterfield (1694 - 1773)
- This above all: to thine own self be true; And it must follow, as the night the day; Thou canst not then be false to any man.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), 'Hamlet,' Act I, Scene iii
- There are two kinds of men who never amount to much: those who cannot do what they are told and those who can do nothing else.
- Cyrus H. Curtis (1850 - 1933)
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