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Results from Poor Man's College:

As empty vessels make the loudest sound, so they that have least with are the greatest babblers.: Plato (427 BC - 347 BC)
If thy words be too luxuriant, confine them, lest they confine thee. He that thinks he can never speak enough, may easily speak too much. A full tongue and an empty brain are seldom parted.: Francis Quarles (1592 - 1644)
Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times worse than nothing.: Sydney Smith (1771 - 1845)
Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never.: Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 - 1834)
A little tact and wise management may often evade resistance, and carry a point, where direct force might be in vain.: Author Unknown
Replying to the tributes paid to him at a testimonial dinner, Herbert Bayard Swope said; "I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure. Try to please everybody.": Author Unknown
Every success is built on the ability to do better than good enough.: Author Unknown
It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done.: Samuel Smiles
Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly I can!" - and get busy and find out how to do it.: Theodore Roosevelt (1858 - 1919)
Success, in a generally accepted sense of the term, means the opportunity to experience and to realize to the maximum the forces that are within us.: David Sarnoff

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