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Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life, I find. - John F. Kennedy 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 It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it's the parts that I do understand. - Mark Twain Success is never found. Failure is never fatal. Courage is the only thing. - Winston Churchill Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody. - Benjamin Franklin

Critics are biased, and so are readers. (Indeed, a critic is a bundle of biases held loosely together by a sense of taste.) But intelligent readers soon discover how to allow for the windage of their own and a critic's prejudices.

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