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- The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play.
- Arnold Toynbee (1889 - 1975)
- It is only a poor sort of happiness that could ever come by caring very much about our own pleasures. We can only have the highest happiness such as goes along with being a great man, by having wide thoughts and much feeling for the rest of the world as well as ourselves.
- George Eliot (1819 - 1880)
- The happiest moments of my life have a been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family.
- Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)
- He who carries out one good deed acquires one advocate in his own behalf, and he who commits one transgression acquires one accuser against himself. Repentance and good works are like a shield against calamity.
- The Talmud
- To be able to be caught up into the world of thought -- that is being educated.
- Edith Hamilton
- When the mind withdraws into itself and dispenses with facts it makes only chaos.
- Edith Hamilton
- Ability is nothing without opportunity.
- Napoleon I
- There's nothing to winning, really. That is, if you happen to be blessed with a keen eye, an agile mind, and no scruples whatsoever.
- Alfred Hitchcock (1899 - 1980)
- Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.
- Napoleon I
- There are only two ways by which to rise in this world, either by one's own industry or by the stupidity of others.
- Jean de LaBruyere
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