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- Act as if it were impossible to fail.
- Dorothea Brande
- At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.
- W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965)
- You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.
- James Thurber (1894 - 1961)
- If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.
- Moshe Dayan (1915 - 1981)
- Be discreet in all things, and so render it unnecessary to be mysterious about any.
- Arthur Wellesley (1769 - 1852), (first Duke of Wellington)
- Open your mouth and purse cautiously, and your stock of wealth and reputation shall, at least in repute, be great.
- Johann Georg von Zimmermann
- When you have got an elephant by the hind leg, and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.
- Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
- The better part of valor is discretion, in the which better part I have saved my life.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), 'King Henry IV part I'
- Determine never to be idle...It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
- Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)
- Do definite good; first of all to yourself, then to definite persons.
- John Lancaster Spalding
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