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Among the smaller duties of life I hardly know any one more important than that of not praising where praise is not due.
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Amongst the financial Twitterati, the term 'muppets' has come to describe any client used and abused by some financial predator. I've adopted the term to describe portfolios that have been assembled for purposes other than serving the clients' best interests.
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An ''unemployed'' existence is a worse negation of life than death itself.
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An actor is something less than a man, while an actress is something more than a woman.
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An atheist has to know a lot more than I know. An atheist is someone who knows there is no god. By some definitions atheism is very stupid.
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An author is often obscure to the reader because they proceed from the thought to expression than like the reader from the expression to the thought.
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An editor should tell the author his writing is better than it is. Not a lot better, a little better.
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An enterprise employing more than 1000 people becomes a self-perpetuating empire, creating so much internal work that it no longer needs any contact with the outside world.
Management Science Journal, October 1960 -
An excuse is worse than a lie, for an excuse is a lie, guarded.
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An honest man is one who knows that he can't consume more than he has produced.
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An humble knowledge of thyself is a surer way to God than a deep search after learning.
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An idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger than the brain cell it occupied.
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An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.
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An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.
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An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
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An intellectual is a person who's found one thing that's more interesting than sex.
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An old trick well done is far better than a new trick with no effect.
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An orphan's curse would drag to hell, a spirit from on high; but oh! more horrible than that, is a curse in a dead man's eye!
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An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.
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