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- Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.
- Fred Astaire
- We would rather run ourselves down than not speak of ourselves at all.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)
- Few men speak humbly of humility, chastely of chastity, skeptically of skepticism.
- Blaise Pascal (1623 - 1662)
- We sometimes imagine we hate flattery, but we only hate the way we are flattered.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)
- How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.
- Marcus Aurelius
- A man is very apt to complain of the ingratitude of those who have risen far above him.
- Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
- A man is very apt to complain of the ingratitude of those who have risen far above him.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
- There are many things that we would throw away, if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
- Not everything that is more difficult is more meritorious.
- Saint Thomas Aquinas (1225 - 1274)
- Character consists of what you do on the third and forth tries.
- James Mechener
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