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- Cecil's dispatch of business was extraordinary, his maxim being, "The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at once."
- No good thing is ever lost. Nothing dies, not even life which gives up one form only to resume another. No good action, no good…
- Wisdom and understanding can only become the possession of individual men by travelling the old road of observation, attention, perseverance, and industry.
- Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. Precepts and instruction are useful so far as they go, but, without the…
- It will generally be found that men who are constantly lamenting their ill luck are only reaping the consequences of their own neglect, mismanagement, and…
- The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at once.
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