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Excellence in any department can be attained only by the labor of a lifetime; it is not to be purchased at a lesser price.
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Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree. We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.
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Extended empires are like expanded gold, exchanging solid strength for feeble splendor.
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Fear is implanted in us as a preservative from evil; but its duty, like that of other passions, is not to overbear reason, but to assist it. It should not be suffered to tyrannize
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Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them.
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Fine clothes are good only as they supply the want of other means of procuring respect.
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Fly fishing may be a very pleasant amusement; but angling or float fishing I can only compare to a stick and a string, with a worm at one end and a fool at the other.
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For this is what America is all about. It is the uncrossed desert and the unclimbed ridge. It is the star that is not reached and the harvest that is sleeping in the unplowed ground.
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Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.
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Go into the street, and give one man a lecture on morality, and another a shilling, and see which will respect you most.
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Great abilities are not requisite for an Historian... Imagination is not required in any high degree.
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Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.
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Growing up in Texas and Oklahoma, Ben Johnson was more famous than John Wayne to some of us. I knew him. I worked with him on a low budget film years ago, and we'd sit around at night while waiting for a shot.
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Had it been us staging the Games, I don't think we would necessarily have done the switcheroo with the girl with the braces
Boris Johnson In Beijing, The Guardian, 21 August 2008 -
Have you seen but a bright lily grow, Before rude hands have touched it? Have you marked but the fall o' the snow Before the soil hath smutched it?... O so white! O so soft! O so sweet is she!
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