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- You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements.
- Norman Douglas, South Wind, 1917
- Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don't know which half.
- John Wanamaker (1838 - 1922), (attributed)
- There's nothing that keeps its youth,
So far as I know, but a tree and truth. - Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809 - 1894), The Deacon's Masterpiece, 1858
- Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil, and you're a thousand miles from the corn field.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890 - 1969), September 11, 1956
- Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 - 1882), Driftwood; Table Talk, 1857
- Ambition often puts men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same posture with creeping.
- Jonathan Swift (1667 - 1745), Miscellanies, 1711
- It is certainly desirable to be well descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors.
- Plutarch (46 AD - 120 AD), 'Morals,' 100 A.D.
- He who boasts of his ancestry is praising the deeds of another.
- Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD), 'Hercules Furens,' 100 A.D.
- It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862), Walden, 1854
- Exercise ferments the humors, casts them into their proper channels, throws off redundancies, and helps nature in those secret distributions, without which the body cannot subsist in its vigor, nor the soul act with cheerfulness.
- Joseph Addison (1672 - 1719), The Spectator, July 12, 1711
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