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Leave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it.
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When you play, play hard when you work, don’t play at all.
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I am only an average man but, by George, I work harder at it than the average man.
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It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic is of altogether secondary importance, and that, in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things.
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I don’t pity any man who does hard work worth doing. I admire him. I pity the creature who does not work, at whichever end of the social scale he may regard himself as being.
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Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
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The man who loves other countries as much as his own stands on a level with the man who loves other women as much as he loves his own wife.
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Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time.
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Germany has reduced savagery to a science, and this great war for the victorious peace of justice must go on until the German cancer is cut clean out of the world body.
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If there is not the war, you don’t get the great general if there is not a great occasion, you don’t get a great statesman if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name.
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If there is not the war, you don’t get the great general if there is not a great occasion, you don’t get a great statesman if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name.
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Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time.
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The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.
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For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.
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Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you’ve got to start young.
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The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.
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To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.
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Germany has reduced savagery to a science, and this great war for the victorious peace of justice must go on until the German cancer is cut clean out of the world body.
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A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.
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The most practical kind of politics is the politics of decency.