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• To teach a man how he may learn to grow independently, and for himself, is perhaps the greatest service that one man…
• There is a great deal of hard lying in the world; especially among people whose characters are above suspicion.
• Grace is an energy; not a mere sentiment; not a mere thought of the Almighty; not even a word of the Almighty.…
• All translation is a compromise - the effort to be literal and the effort to be idiomatic.
• Nowhere probably is there more true feeling, and nowhere worse taste, than in a churchyard - both as regards the monuments and…
• Plato's dialogues bear at least some similarities to the classical plays.
• One man is as good as another until he has written a book.
• My dear child, you must believe in God despite what the clergy tells you.
• You've got to be success minded. You've got to feel that things are coming your way when you're out selling; otherwise, you…
• I am not blaming the past. ... But I want the peace of God to settle on the future.
• The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing them.
• Never retreat. Never explain. Get it done and let them howl.

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