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Self discipline is that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.
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The history of the last century shows, as we shall see later, that the advice given to governments by bankers, like the advice they gave to industrialists, was consistently good for bankers, but was often disastrous for governments, businessmen, and the people generally.
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There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.
Source: My Best Short Stories (2014) 75 -
To confess a fault freely is the next thing to being innocent of it.
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To those of my race who... underestimate the importance of cultivating friendly relations with the Southern white man, who is their next-door neighbor, I would say, 'Cast down your bucket where you are'—cast it down in making friends in every manly way of the people of all races by whom we are surrounded.
Source: Address at Atlanta International Exposition, Atlanta, Ga., 18 September 1895 -
True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to pomp and noise; it arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.
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We are growing serious, and let me tell you, that's the next step to being dull.
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Win any way as long as you can get away with it. Nice guys finish last.
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Your days are short here; this is the last of your springs. And now in the serenity and quiet of this lovely place, touch the depths of truth, feel the hem of Heaven. You will go away with old, good friends. And don't forget when you leave why you came.
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''You gave me the key of your heart, my love; then why did you make me knock?'' Oh that was yesterday, saints above! And last night - I changed the lock!
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'Monday Night Football' has the good and the bad points. The bad point is you have to wait around all day, and it disrupts your schedule for the next week. Now you have one less day to prepare for the following week.
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'Tis said that wrath is the last thing in a man to grow old.
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'Tis the last rose of summer, left blooming alone; all her lovely companions are faded and gone.
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'What comes next?' is the constant question I'm asked by outsiders eager to travel to the island. During the eleven years I traveled to Havana, very few Cubans I met on the island ever bothered to verbalize this question.
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...when a society is reaching its end, in the last couple of centuries you have... a misplacement of satisfactions. You find your emotional satisfaction in making a lot of money... or in proving to the poor, half-naked people in Southeast Asia that you can kill them in large numbers.
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A book may be compared to your neighbor: if it be good, it cannot last too long; if bad, you cannot get rid of it too early.
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A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.
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A Deap Vally renaissance is going to begin next year and will be our focus for the start of 2013. They will blow the cobwebs off a music scene that has become just a little bit stale.
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A duty dodged is like a debt unpaid; it is only deferred, and we must come back and settle the account at last.
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