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- There are two kinds of men who never amount to much: those who cannot do what they are told and those who can do nothing else.
- Cyrus H. Curtis (1850 - 1933)
- Neither a borrower nor a lender be; For loan oft loses both itself and friend; And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry [economy].
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), 'Hamlet,' Act I, Scene iii
- Costly thy habit [dress] as thy purse can buy; But not expressed in fancy - rich, not gaudy. For the apparel oft proclaims the man.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), 'Hamlet,' Act I, Scene iii
- Every man is guilty of all the good he didn't do.
- Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
- To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it the more fit for its prime function of looking forward.
- Margaret Fairless Barber
- Be on the alert to recognize your prime at whatever time of your life it may occur.
- Muriel Spark (1918 - )
- Aim at the sun, and you may not reach it; but your arrow will fly far higher than if aimed at an object on a level with yourself.
- Joel Hawes
- Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong?
- Jane Austen (1775 - 1817)
- Beware of too much laughter, for it deadens the mind and produces oblivion.
- The Talmud
- No one can build his security upon the nobleness of another person.
- Willa Cather (1873 - 1947)
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