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- Never be entirely idle; but either be reading, or writing, or praying or meditating or endeavoring something for the public good.
- Thomas a Kempis (1380 - 1471)
- A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742 - 1799)
- To obtain a man's opinion of you, make him mad.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809 - 1894)
- The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato - the best part under ground.
- Thomas Overbury (1581 - 1613)
- Without discipline, there's no life at all.
- Katharine Hepburn (1907 - 2003)
- I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
- Bill Cosby (1937 - )
- It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.
- Robert H. Goddard (1882 - 1945)
- Be wiser than other people, if you can, but do not tell them so.
- Lord Chesterfield (1694 - 1773)
- Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them.
- Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)
- All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.
- Edmund Burke (1729 - 1797)
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