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- Never be entirely idle; but either be reading, or writing, or praying or meditating or endeavoring something for the public good.
- Thomas a Kempis (1380 - 1471)
- 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)
- Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
- Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD)
- 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)
- Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed.
- Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886)
- I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
- Bill Cosby (1937 - )
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