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  • Louis Kronenberger The trouble with us in America isn't that the poetry of life has turned to prose, but that it has turned to advertising copy.
    Louis Kronenberger
    American literary critic and novelist (1904 - 1980)
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  • Lord Chesterfield The world can doubtless never be well known by theory: practice is absolutely necessary; but surely it is of great use to a young man, before he sets out for that country, full of mazes, windings, and turnings, to have at least a general map of it, made by some experienced traveler.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • Booker T. Washington The world cares very little what you or I know, but it does care a great deal about what you or I do.
    Speech in Boston, 30-7-1903
    Booker T. Washington
    American Black Leader and Educator (1856 - 1915)
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  • Charles Caleb Colton Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Thomas Carlyle There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Washington Irving There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love.
    Washington Irving
    American writer (1783 - 1859)
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  • Anne Bronte There is always a "but" in this imperfect world.
    Anne Bronte
    British writer (1820 - 1849)
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  • Napoleon There is no class of people so hard to manage in a state, as those whose intentions are honest, but whose consciences are bewitched.
    Napoleon
    French Emperor (1769 - 1821)
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  • William James There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision, and for whom the lighting of every cigar, the drinking of every cup, the time of rising and going to bed every day, and the beginning of every bit of work, are subjects of express volitional deliberation.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Geoffrey Chaucer There's never a new fashion but it's old.
    Geoffrey Chaucer
    British poet (1340 - 1400)
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  • Andy Warhol They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
    Andy Warhol
    American artist (1928 - 1987)
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  • Anna Lindh This is not bad, but the pace of globalisation has surpassed the capacity of the system to adjust to new realities of a more interdependent and integrated world.
    Anna Lindh
    Swedish Social Democratic politician (1957 - 2003)
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  • Benjamin Franklin Those disputing, contradicting, and confuting people are generally unfortunate in their affairs. They get victory, sometimes, but they never get good will, which would be of more use to them.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Henry David Thoreau To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity, and trust. It is to solve some of the problems of life, not only theoretically, but practically.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Stephen R. Covey To focus on technique is like cramming your way through school. You sometimes get by, perhaps even get good grades, but if you don't pay the price day in and day out, you'll never achieve true mastery of the subjects you study or develop an educated mind.
    Stephen R. Covey
    American educator, author and businessman (1932 - 2012)
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  • Ben Jonson To speak and to speak well, are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
    Ben Jonson
    British Dramatist, Poet (1572 - 1637)
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  • La Harpe To teach successfully we must tell all we know, but only what is adaptable to the student.
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  • Mark Twain Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing, but cabbage with a college education.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Thomas Jefferson Traveling makes a man wiser, but less happy.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Quentin Crisp Treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.
    Manners from Heaven: A Divine Guide to Good Behaviour (1984) ch. 7
    Quentin Crisp
    English writer and actor (1908 - 1999)
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