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- The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines - so they should go as far as possible from home to build their first buildings.
- Frank Lloyd Wright (1869 - 1959), New York Times, October 4, 1953
- Magnificent promises are always to be suspected.
- Theodore Parker (1810 - 1860)
- A full cup must be carried steadily.
- English Proverb
- Do not trust all men, but trust men of worth; the former course is silly, the latter a mark of prudence.
- Democritus (460 BC - 370 BC)
- Reveal not every secret you have to a friend, for how can you tell but that friend may hereafter become an enemy. And bring not all mischief you are able to upon an enemy, for he may one day become your friend.
- Saadi (1184 - 1291)
- You will find that the mere resolve not to be useless, and the honest desire to help other people, will, in the quickest and delicatest ways, improve yourself.
- John Ruskin (1819 - 1900)
- Be sincere; be brief; be seated.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882 - 1945)
- Make sure you have finished speaking before your audience has finished listening.
- Dorothy Sarnoff
- Surely there comes a time when counting the cost and paying the price aren't things to think about any more. All that matters is value - the ultimate value of what one does.
- James Hilton (1900 - 1954)
- Quarrel not at all. No man resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention.
- Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865), in a letter to J. M. Cutts, October 26, 1863
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