Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.
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Another segment of society that has constructed a language of its own is business. ... The businessman is speaking a language that is familiar to him and dear to him. Its portentous nouns and verbs invest ordinary events with high adventure the executive walks among ink erasers caparisoned like a knight. This we should be tolerant of--every man of spirit wants to ride a white horse. ... A good many of the special words of business seem designed more to express the user's dreams than to express his precise meaning.
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A writer is like a bean plant he has his day and then becomes stringy.
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Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.
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