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The magic formula that successful businesses have discovered is to treat customers like guests and employees like people.
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The many faces of intimacy: the Victorians could experience it through correspondence, but not through cohabitation; contemporary men and women can experience it through fornication, but not through friendship.
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The real use of gunpowder is to make all men tall.
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The waste of plenty is the resource of scarcity.
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There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.
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There is no spectacle on earth more appealing than that of a beautiful woman in the act of cooking dinner for someone she loves.
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To convert somebody go and take them by the hand and guide them.
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Too poor for a bribe, and too proud to importune, he had not the method of making a fortune.
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Traveling makes a man wiser, but less happy.
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Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.
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Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.
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Waste is worse than loss. The time is coming when every person who lays claim to ability will keep the question of waste before him constantly. The scope of thrift is limitless.
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When angry, count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred.
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You ask what is the use of classification, arrangement, systemization? I answer you: order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject-the actual enemy is the unknown.
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'Be yourself' is about the worst advice you can give some people.
The Book of Today (1923) -
'Tis the last rose of summer, left blooming alone; all her lovely companions are faded and gone.
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A 'genius' is often merely a talented person who has done all of his or her homework.
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A bad cause will never be supported by bad means and bad men.
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A book that furnishes no quotations is no book, it is a plaything.
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A book that is shut is but a block.
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