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Webster
The world is governed more by appearance than realities so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it.
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William Shakespeare
Assume a virtue, if you have it not.
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Alfred Edward Perlman
After you've done a thing the same way for two years, look it over carefully. After five years, look at it with suspicion. And after ten years, throw it away and start all over.
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Charles Dickens
I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time...
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Frederic William Maitland
The essential matter of history is not what happened but what people thought or said about it.
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Oscar Wilde
Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
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George C. Marshall
When a thing is done, it's done. Don't look back. Look forward to your next objective.
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Unknown, Often attributed to Abraham Lincoln
I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country. . . . Corporations have been enthroned, an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money-power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until the wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed.
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John Peet
Defining consultancy is a bit like defining the upper class every possible candidate draws the line just below himself.
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Lionel Trilling
Literature is the human activity that takes the fullest and most precise account of variousness, possibility, complexity, and difficulty.
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Peter Ustinov
Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.
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The Young Ones
This calls for a very special plan of psychology and extreme violence
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