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  • Thomas Carlyle A fair day's wages for a fair day's work.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Robert Louis Stevenson A friend is a present you give to yourself.
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    Scottish writer and poet (1850 - 1894)
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  • Ben Bernanke A gold standard doesn't imply stability in the prices of the goods and services that people buy every day, it implies a stability in the price of gold itself.
    Ben Bernanke
    American economist (1953 - )
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  • Bob Beauprez A good day for Barack Obama is anytime the dominant topic of discussion is anything but the economy.
    Bob Beauprez
    American politician and member (1948 - )
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  • Rose Macaulay A hot bath! I cry, as I sit down in it! Again as I lie flat, a hot bath! How exquisite a pleasure, how luxurious, fervid and flagrant a consolation for the rigors, the austerities, the renunciation of the day.
    Rose Macaulay
    English writer (1881 - 1958)
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  • Bram Stoker A house cannot be made habitable in a day; and, after all, how few days go to make up a century.
    Bram Stoker
    Irish author (1847 - 1912)
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  • Brody Jenner A lot of times, I'm traveling or have appointments, so I don't get to work out every day, but I try to get to the gym as much as I can.
    Brody Jenner
    American television personality, disc jockey and model (1983 - )
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  • Ben Zobrist A lot of times, if you stay in the present and focus on getting the most out of yourself today, then things work out the way they're supposed to.
    Ben Zobrist
    American professional baseball player (1981 - )
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  • Beryl Markham A man can be riddled with malaria for years on end, with its chills and its fevers and its nightmares, but if one day he sees that the water from his kidneys is black, he knows he will not leave that place again, wherever he is, or wherever he hoped to be.
    Beryl Markham
    English-born Kenyan aviator, racehorse trainer and author (1902 - 1986)
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  • Ted Williams A man has to have goals- for a day, for a lifetime- that was mine, to have people say, ''There goes Ted Williams, the greatest hitter who ever lived.''
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  • Fawn M. Brodie A man's memory is bound to be a distortion of his past in accordance with his present interests, and the most faithful autobiography is likely to mirror less what a man was than what he has become.
    Fawn M. Brodie
    American historian and biographer (1915 - 1981)
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  • William Shakespeare A merry heart goes all the day,
    Your sad tires in a mile-a.
    The Winter's Tale (1610) 4,3
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Carlos Ruiz Zafon A modern-day Dickens with a popular voice and a genius for storytelling in any genre, Stephen King has written many wonderful books.
    Carlos Ruiz Zafon
    Spanish novelist (1964 - 2020)
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  • Sydney Smith A nation grown free in a single day is a child born with the limbs and the vigor of a man, who would take a drawn sword for his rattle, and set the house in a blaze that he might chuckle over the splendor.
    Sydney Smith
    English writer and cleric (1856 - 1934)
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  • Bob Mayer A one-hundred-thousand-word novel might take a year or several years, and then you just come to 'The End' one day. But it takes hundreds of days to get to 'The End.' As a writer, you have to put in those hundreds of days.
    Bob Mayer
    American author (1959 - )
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  • Edith Hamilton A people's literature is the great textbook for real knowledge of them. The writings of the day show the quality of the people as no historical reconstruction can.
    Edith Hamilton
    American educator and author (1867 - 1963)
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  • Emily Brontë A person who has not done one half his day's work by ten o'clock, runs a chance of leaving the other half undone.
    Wuthering Heights (1847)
    Emily Brontë
    British writer, poet (1818 - 1848)
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  • Bernard Crick A politics of vengeance is not politics. Revenge is a recklessness towards the future in a vain attempt to make the present abolish a suffering which is already past.
    In Defence Of Politics Ch. 4, A Defence Of Politics Against Nationalism,
    Bernard Crick
    British political theorist (1929 - 2008)
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  • Paul Klee A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller.
    Paul Klee
    Swiss artist (1879 - 1940)
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  • Michel Faber A single day spent doing things which fail to nourish the soul is a day stolen, mutilated, and discarded in the gutter of destiny.
    Lelieblank, scharlaken rood (2002)
    Michel Faber
    Dutch-Scottish English-language writer (1960 - )
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