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Where parents do too much for their children, the children will not do much for themselves.

Elbert Hubbard

A woman will doubt everything you say except it be compliments to herself.
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Compliment Doubt Exception Herself Woman
I do not read a book; I hold a conversation with the author.
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Author Book Conservation Hold Myself Reading
Most people like hard work, particularly when they’re paying for it.
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Hard Work Pay People
What others say of me matters little; what I myself say and do matters much.
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Gossip Myself Opinion Talk Worth
If you have health, you probably will be happy, and if you have health and happiness, you have all the wealth you need, even if it is not all you want.
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Happiness Health Need Wealth Yourself
Happiness is a habit—cultivate it.
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Cultivation Happiness One Liner
There is something that is much more scarce, something finer far, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.
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Ability Rare Recognition Wisdom
Thoroughness characterizes all successful men. Genius is the art of taking infinite pains. All great achievement has been characterized by extreme care, infinite painstaking, even to the minutest detail.
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Achievement Art Character Genius Infinity Man Pain Success
The fool is not the man who merely does foolish things. The fool is the man who does not know enough to cash in on his foolishness.
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Enough Fools Himself Knowledge Man
Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away.
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Generosity Growth Love Way Wisdom
The greatest mistake a person can make is to be afraid of making one.
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Afraid Greatness Mistake Oneself
The worst thing about medicine is that one kind makes another necessary
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Kind Medicine Necessary Worst
Academic education is the act of memorizing things read in books, and things told by college professors who got their education mostly by memorizing things read in books.
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Academics Act Book Education Memories Reading
God will not look you over for medals degrees or diplomas, but for scars.
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Appearance God Scars Yourself
Failure — The man who can tell others what to do and how to do it, but never does it himself.
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Advice Failure Himself Man
The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.
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Ability Better God Reward Work

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