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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.: Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)
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Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.: J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, 2005
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Think of yourself as an incandescent power, illuminated and perhaps forever talked to by God and his messengers.: Brenda Ueland
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Even with the best of maps and instruments, we can never fully chart our journeys.: Gail Pool
What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.: Dave Barry (1947 - )
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Feelings are like toes! They have to breathe free or they'll stink to high heaven!: Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005
You know that children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers.: John J. Plomp
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Habit is habit and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
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He who every morning plans the transaction of the day and follows out that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through the maze of the most busy life. But where no plan is laid, where the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incidence, chaos will soon reign.: Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885)
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An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.: Charles de Montesquieu (1689 - 1755)
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To die is nothing; but it is terrible not to live.: Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885), Les Miserables
Millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.: Susan Ertz, Anger in the Sky
This is the devilish thing about foreign affairs: they are foreign and will not always conform to our whim.: James Reston (1909 - ), New York Times, June 12 1968
I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
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I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.: Joseph Conrad (1857 - 1924)
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If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches.: Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926)
It is always a silly thing to give advice, but to give good advice is fatal.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.: Groucho Marx (1890 - 1977)
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Clergymen have much the same in their breeches as other men.: Elizabeth Aston, The Second Mrs. Darcy, 2007
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Einstein said God doesn't play dice with the universe, but I don't know--maybe not as a whole, but I think he gets a pretty big kick out of messing in peoples' back yards.: Dennis Koenig and Jordan Budde, Northern Exposure, Roots, 1991