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- I'm convinced that about half of what separates the successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance.
- Steve Jobs (1955 - 2011), Interview, 1995
- The things that make us safest from others make us least from ourselves.
- Danah Boyd, apophenia, 01-08-07
- A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he gets to know something.
- Wilson Mizner (1876 - 1933)
- Good manners are just a way of showing other people that we have respect for them.
- Bill Kelly, Blast from the Past, 1999
- Sometimes the lies you tell are less frightening than the loneliness you might feel if you stopped telling them.
- Brock Clarke, An Arsonist's Guide to Writers' Homes in New England, 2007
- For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbours, and laugh at them in our turn?
- Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Pride and Prejudice, 1811
- Loss of virtue in a female is irretrievable; that one false step involves her in endless ruin; that her reputation is no less brittle than it is beautiful; and that she cannot be too much guarded in her behaviour towards the undeserving of the other sex.
- Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Pride and Prejudice, 1811
- Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously.... Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.
- Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Pride and Prejudice, 1811
- I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book! When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.
- Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Pride and Prejudice, 1811
- No one can be really esteemed accomplished who does not greatly surpass what is usually met with.
- Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Pride and Prejudice, 1811
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