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- Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all.
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
- Grasp the subject, the words will follow.
- Cato the Elder (234 BC - 149 BC)
- Do pleasant things yourself, but unpleasant things through others.
- Baltasar Gracian
- Never make a defense or an apology until you are accused.
- King Charles I, of England
- Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
- Henry Ford (1863 - 1947)
- Better to rely on one powerful king than on many little princes.
- Jean de La Fontaine (1621 - 1695)
- Write something to suit yourself and many people will like it; write something to suit everybody and scarcely anyone will care for it.
- Jesse Stuart
- Praise youth and it will prosper.
- Irish Proverb
- Keep true to the dreams of thy youth.
- Friedrich von Schiller (1759 - 1805)
- Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus, but use all gently. For in the very torrent, tempest, and as I may say, whirlwind of passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), 'The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark,' Act III, scene ii
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