We ask advice, but we mean approbation.
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He that has energy enough to root out a vice should go further, and try to plant a virtue in its place.Charles Caleb Colton
To know a man, observe how he wins his object, rather than how he loses it; for when we fail, our pride supports us - when we succeed, it betrays us.
Charles Caleb Colton
If a horse has four legs, and I'm riding it, I think I can win.
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Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them.
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The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary.
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Law and equity are two things which God has joined, but which man has put asunder.
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