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- Whatever you do, do it with all your might. Work at it, early and late, in season and out of season, not leaving a stone…
- Politeness and civility are the best capital ever invested in business. Large stores, gilt signs, flaming advertisements, will all prove unavailing if you or your…
- The show business has all phases and grades of dignity, from the exhibition of a monkey to the exposition of that highest art in music…
- We cannot all see alike, but we can all do good.
- Every man should make his son or daughter learn some useful trade or profession, so that in these days of changing fortunes of being rich…
- Every man's occupation should be beneficial to his fellow-man as well as profitable to himself. All else is vanity and folly.
- You know I had rather be laughed at than not to be noticed at all…
- I am a showman by profession... and all the gilding shall make nothing else of me.
- In the United States, where we have more land than people, it is not at all difficult for persons in good health to make money.
- Witchcraft is one of the most baseless, absurd, disgusting and silly of all the humbugs.
- True economy consists in always making the income exceed the out-go. Wear the old clothes a little longer if necessary; dispense with the new pair…
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- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to… — Hannah Arendt
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- A friend to all is a friend to none. — Aristotle