The greatest humiliation in life, is to work hard on something from which you expect great appreciation, and then fail to get it.
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The man who can keep a secret may be wise, but he is not half as wise as the man with no secrets to keep.
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I never met a man so mean that I was not willing he should admire me.
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Every successful man I have heard of has done the best he could with conditions as he found them...
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