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The Englishman has all the qualities of a poker except its occasional warmth.
Profitability is the sovereign criterion of the enterprise.
A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs, jolted by every pebble in the road.
Come, follow me, and leave the world to its babblings.
Some are weather-wise, some are otherwise.
Come what come may, time and the hour runs through the roughest day.
Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.
Hain't we got all the fools in town on our side? And ain't that a big enough majority for any town?
Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.
Body and mind, like man and wife, do not always agree to die together.
Don't wait for your "ship to come in," and feel angry and cheated when it doesn't. Get going with something small.
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
What kind of society isn't structured on greed? The problem of social organization is how to set up an arrangement under which greed will do the least harm; capitalism is that kind of a system.
True happiness consists in making others happy.
The world's a scene of changes, and to be constant, in nature, is inconstancy.
There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune.
Real friendship is shown in times of trouble; prosperity is full of friends.
Faith is the subtle chain which binds us to the infinite.
Freedom from worries and surcease from strain are illusions that always inhabit the distance.
The tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach. It isn't a calamity to die with dreams unfulfilled, but it is a calamity not to dream. It is not disgrace to reach the stars, but it is a disgrace to have no stars to reach for. Not failure, but low aim, is a sin.


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