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It is a greater advantage to be honestly educated than honorably born.


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Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself.

Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself.



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If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.



A nail is driven out by another nail. Habit is overcome by habit.

A nail is driven out by another nail. Habit is overcome by habit.



By a Carpenter mankind was made, and only by that Carpenter can mankind be remade.

By a Carpenter mankind was made, and only by that Carpenter can mankind be remade.



Read first the best books. The important thing for you is not how much you know, but the quality of what you know.

Read first the best books. The important thing for you is not how much you know, but the quality of what you know.



Reflection is a flower of the mind, giving out wholesome fragrance; but revelry is the same flower, when rank and running to seed.

Reflection is a flower of the mind, giving out wholesome fragrance; but revelry is the same flower, when rank and running to seed.



Besides, it happens (how, I cannot tell) that an idea launched like a javelin in proverbial form strikes with sharper point on the hearer's mind and leaves implanted barbs for meditation.

Besides, it happens (how, I cannot tell) that an idea launched like a javelin in proverbial form strikes with sharper point on the hearer's mind and leaves implanted barbs for meditation.



They take unbelievable pleasure in the hideous blast of the hunting horn and baying of the hounds. Dogs dung smells sweet as cinnamon to them.

They take unbelievable pleasure in the hideous blast of the hunting horn and baying of the hounds. Dogs dung smells sweet as cinnamon to them.



No Man is wise at all Times, or is without his blind Side.

No Man is wise at all Times, or is without his blind Side.



The majority of the common people loathe war and pray for peace; only a handful of individuals, whose evil joys depend on general misery, desire war.

The majority of the common people loathe war and pray for peace; only a handful of individuals, whose evil joys depend on general misery, desire war.





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Forms are vehicles and instruments, and vehicles and instruments cannot be called good or bad without context.



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Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.



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In thousands of years there has been no advance in public morals, in philosophy, in religion or in politics, but the advance in business has been the greatest miracle the world has ever known.



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You can always get someone to do your thinking for you.



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I don't know any other other team that got to the finals without two all stars.



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