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- 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)
- If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.
- Bruce Barton
- A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive. Having been alive, it won't be so hard in the end to lie down and rest.
- Pearl Bailey (1918 - 1990)
- You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through.
- Rosalynn Carter (1927 - )
- Go to your bosom; Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), 'Measure for Measure'
- Win hearts, and you have all men's hands and purses.
- William Cecil Burleigh
- If you explore beneath shyness or party chit-chat, you can sometimes turn a dull exchange into an intriguing one. I've found this to be particularly true in the case of professors or intellectuals, who are full of fascinating information, but need encouragement before they'll divulge it.
- Joyce Carol Oates (1938 - )
- Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.
- Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC)
- There is no den in the wide world to hide a rogue. Commit a crime and the earth is made of glass. Commit a crime, and it seems as if a coat of snow fell on the ground, such as reveals in the woods the track of every partridge, and fox, and squirrel.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
- Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.
- Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 - 1821)
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