Arthur Brisbane Quotes

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• Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.
• While the fool is enjoying the little he has, I will hunt for more. The way to hunt for more is to utilize your odd…
• If you don't hit a newspaper reader between the eyes with your first sentence, there is no need of writing a second one.
• Use a picture. It's worth a thousand words.
• A newspaper is a mirror reflecting the public, a mirror more or less defective, but still a mirror.
• Opportunity comes like a snail, and once it has passed you it changes into a fleet rabbit and is gone.
• Every minute that you save by making it useful, more profitable, is so much added to your life and its possibilities. Every minute lost is…
• Time is the one thing we possess. Our success depends upon the use of our time, and its by-product, the odd moment.
• Among the aimless, unsuccessful or worthless, you often hear talk about 'killing time.' The man who is always killing time is really killing his own…
• The commonest form, one of the most often neglected, and the safest opportunity for the average man to seize, is hard work.
• Regret for time wasted can become a power for good in the time that remains, if we will only stop the waste and the idle,…
• A good friend can tell you what is the matter with you in a minute. He may not seem such a good friend after telling.
• The fence around a cemetery is foolish, for those inside can't come out and those outside don't want to get in.
• Whatever good there is in small boys is usually based upon their admiration for girls of their own age.

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