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Pearl Sydenstricker Buck
The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.
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Homer
A companion's words of persuasion are effective.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.
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Orson Welles
My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.
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Michael Howard, The Observer (1980)
The important thing when you are going to do something brave is to have someone on hand to witness it.
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Oscar Wilde
Always forgive your enemies nothing annoys them so much.
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Samuel Goldwyn
You've got to take the bitter with the sour.
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W. Somerset Maugham
The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.
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George Eliot, Middlemarch
What we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
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Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield
Most maxim-mongers have preferred the prettiness to the justness of a thought, and the turn to the truth but I have refused myself to everything that my own experience did not justify and confirm.
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Robert Frost
Why abandon a belief merely because it ceases to be true Cling to it long enough, and it will turn true again, for so it goes. Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.
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Simonides
A man gains no possession better than a good woman, nothing more horrible than a bad one.
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