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 When I was a young man I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. I didn't want to be a failure, so I did ten times more work.  If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too; Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it, And - which is more - you'll be a man, my son! The history of all times, and of today especially, teaches that... women will be forgotten if they forget to think about themselves. I shall always consider the best guesser the best prophet. - Cicero Pessimism never won any battle. Banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies. If thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him drink. - Romans A poor woman from Manchester, on being taken to the seaside, is said to have expressed her delight on seeing for the first time something of which there was enough for everybody. Unlike grownups, children have little need to deceive themselves. - Goethe Passing the SAT: My personal theory is that it has to do with how much money you send them in the mail. I think the amounts they tell you to send are actually just suggested minimum donations - if you get my drift. To relinquish a present good through apprehension of a future evil is in most instances unwise ... from a fear which may afterwards turn out groundless, you lost the good that lay within your grasp. Welcome death, quoth the rat, when the trap fell. We are given children to test us and make us more spiritual. The ides of March are come. The bow is bent, the arrow flies, The winged shaft of fate. Fame is a bee It has a song - It has a sting - Ah, too, it has a wing. A new acquaintance is like a new book. I prefer it, even if bad, to a classic. Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance. Sex is like money; only too much is enough. A Liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel. 
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