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- Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don't know which half.
- John Wanamaker (1838 - 1922), (attributed)
- To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.
- Bernard M. Baruch (1870 - 1965), 1940
- There's nothing that keeps its youth,
So far as I know, but a tree and truth. - Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809 - 1894), The Deacon's Masterpiece, 1858
- Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil, and you're a thousand miles from the corn field.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890 - 1969), September 11, 1956
- It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.
- George Washington (1732 - 1799), letter to his niece Harriet Washington, October 30, 1791
- Hitch your wagon to a star.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), "American Civilization", The Atlantic Monthly, 1862
- Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 - 1882), Driftwood; Table Talk, 1857
- Ambition often puts men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same posture with creeping.
- Jonathan Swift (1667 - 1745), Miscellanies, 1711
- It is certainly desirable to be well descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors.
- Plutarch (46 AD - 120 AD), 'Morals,' 100 A.D.
- He who boasts of his ancestry is praising the deeds of another.
- Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD), 'Hercules Furens,' 100 A.D.
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