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- William Feather: American writer, businessman
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The soundest argument will produce no more conviction in an empty head than the most superficial declamation, as a feather and a guinea fall with equel velocity in a vacuum.
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A feather will weigh down a scale when there is nothing in the opposite one.
Source: Principles of Political Economy (1836) II, I, V -
A man must not deny his manifest abilities, for that is to evade his obligations.
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A pun is not bound by the laws which limit nicer wit. It is a pistol let off at the ear; not a feather to tickle the intellect.
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Back of ninety-nine out of one-hundred assertions that a thing cannot be done is nothing, but the unwillingness to do it.
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Democracy! Bah! When I hear that word I reach for my feather Boa!
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For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move; to feel the needs and hitches of our life more nearly; to come down off this feather-bed of civilization, and find the globe granite underfoot and strewn with cutting flints.
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Here is the secret of inspiration: Tell yourself that thousands and tens of thousands of people, not very intelligent and certainly no more intelligent than the rest of us, have mastered problems as difficult as those that now baffle you.
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Here's to the day when it is May
And care as light as a feather,
When your little shoes and my big boots
Go tramping over the heather.Source: A Toast -
If people really liked to work, we'd still be plowing the land with sticks and transporting goods on our backs.
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If we do not discipline ourselves the world will do it for us.
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Invest in a feather duster - the possibilities are endless.
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Life begins at 40 - but so do fallen arches, rheumatism, faulty eyesight, and the tendency to tell a story to the same person, three or four times.
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No man is a failure who is enjoying life.
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One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person.
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Some of us might find happiness if we quit struggling so desperately for it.
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Something that has always puzzled me all my life is why, when I am in special need of help, the good deed is usually done by somebody on whom I have no claim.
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Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.
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The petty economies of the rich are just as amazing as the silly extravagances of the poor.
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