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- Be wiser than other people, if you can, but do not tell them so.
- Lord Chesterfield (1694 - 1773)
- Be on the alert to recognize your prime at whatever time of your life it may occur.
- Muriel Spark (1918 - )
- Beware of too much laughter, for it deadens the mind and produces oblivion.
- The Talmud
- If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.
- Bruce Barton
- Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win.
- Jonathan Kozol
- It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
- Andre Gide (1869 - 1951)
- To find a fault is easy; to do better may be difficult.
- Plutarch (46 AD - 120 AD)
- Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
- Arnold Bennett
- You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
- Beverly Sills (1929 - )
- Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong.
- Baltasar Gracian
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