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- Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
- Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.
- The wheel that squeaks the loudest is the one that gets the grease.
- One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness.
- Laughter is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one place.
- I have never known a person to live to be one hundred and be remarkable for anything else.
- One of the best temporary cures for pride and affectation is seasickness; a man who wants to vomit never puts on airs.
- It's not only the most difficult thing to know one's self, but the most inconvenient.
- No one can disgrace us but ourselves.
- My advice to those who are about to begin, in earnest, the journey of life, is to take their heart in one hand and a…
- One of the rarest things that a man ever does, is to do the best he can.
- Adam invented love at first sight, one of the greatest labor-saving machines the world ever saw.
- It's a wise man who profits by his own experience, but it's a good deal wiser one who lets the rattlesnake bite the other fellow.
- Most everyone seems willing to be a fool himself, but he can't bear to have anyone else one.
- The miser and the glutton are two facetious buzzards: one hides his store, and the other stores his hide.
- I hate to be a kicker, I always long for peace, But the wheel that does the squeaking, is the one that gets the grease.
- Most men had rather say a smart thing than do a good one. John P. Kotter, Leading Change.
- Habits are like the wrinkles on a man's brow; if you will smooth out the one, I will smooth out the other.
- Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there.
- In the whole history of the world there is but one thing that money cannot buy...to wit--the wag of a dog's tail.
- Knowledge is like money: the more one gets, the more one craves.
- I've never known a person to live to be one hundred and be remarkable for anything else
- One of rarest things that a man ever does is to do the best he can.
- When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I…
- Consider the postage stamp, my son. It secures success through its ability to stick to one thing till it gets there.
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