You can easily find people who are ten times as rich at sixty as they were at twenty but not one of them will tell you that they are ten times as happy
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When I was a young man I observed that nine out of every ten things I did were failures. I didn't want to be a failure. So I did ten times more work.
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When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.
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Dear Sir, Your profession has, as usual, destroyed your brain.
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The great secret is not having bad manners or good manners or having any other particular sort of manners, but having the same manner for all human souls in short, behaving as if you were in Heaven, where there are no third class carriages and one soul is as good as another.
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