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Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em. - William Shakespeare Home is the place, when you have to go there, they have to take you in. - Robert Frost I can't believe that God plays dice with the universe. - Albert Einstein I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have. - Abraham Lincoln I think and think for months, for years. Ninety-nine times the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right. - Albert Einstein Success is never found. Failure is never fatal. Courage is the only thing. - Winston Churchill

A book is a mirror: if an ass peers into it, you can't expect an apostle to look out.

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Barbaric accuracy - whimpering humility.

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Never undertake anything for which you wouldn't have the courage to ask the blessings of heaven.

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Most men of education are more superstitious than they admit - nay, than they think.

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Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.

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Sometimes men come by the name of genius in the same way that certain insects come by the name of centipede - not because they have a hundred feet, but because most people can't count above fourteen.

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If moderation is a fault, then indifference is a crime.

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Every man has his moral backside too, which he doesn't expose unnecessarily but keeps covered as long as possible by the trousers of decorum.

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The lower classes of men, though they do not think it worthwhile to record what they perceive, nevertheless perceive everything that is worth noting; the difference between them and a man of learning often consists in nothing more than the latter's facility for expression.

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He who is in love with himself has at least this advantage he won't encounter many rivals.

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One can live in this world on soothsaying but not on truth saying.

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With most people, doubt about one thing is simply blind belief in another.

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Bad writers are those who try to express their own feeble ideas in the language of good ones.

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