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- Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.
- Miguel de Cervantes (1547 - 1616)
- Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
- Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.
- Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
- I would rather try to persuade a man to go along, because once I have persuaded him he will stick. If I scare him, he will stay just as long as he is scared, and then he is gone.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890 - 1969)
- The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without 'playing up' to anyone - even to himself.
- Andre Malraux (1901 - 1976)
- If you wish to know what a man is, place him in authority.
- Yugoslav Proverb
- It is the part of a good shepherd to shear his flock, not to skin it.
- Latin Proverb
- Never seem more learned than the people you are with. Wear your learning like a pocket watch and keep it hidden. Do not pull it out to count the hours, but give the time when you are asked.
- Lord Chesterfield (1694 - 1773)
- It is no profit to have learned well, if you neglect to do well.
- Publilius Syrus (~100 BC)
- Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather fear that it shall never have a beginning.
- John Henry Cardinal Newman (1801 - 1890)
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