Quote #15431
It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help.
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The Queen Mother, with a lifetime’s popularity, seemed incapable of a bad performance as...
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You should hammer your iron when it is glowing hot.
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I do not like poems that resemble hay compressed into a geometrically perfect cube....
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In life, as in chess, forethought wins.
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Before we take to the sea, we walk on land. . . Before we...
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Our quaint metaphysical opinions, in an hour of anguish, are like playthings by the...
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The Earth has a skin and that skin has diseases, one of those diseases...
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Mediocrity requires aloofness to preserve its dignity.
Quote #17979
I’m not a good butcher but I’ve had to learn to carve the joint....