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It is not a case of whether we want to wash our hands of Europe or want to help her to regain her feet. The troubles of Europe have been laid on our doorstep, so to speak, and will plague us, if we do nothing to cure them, whether we like it or not.

B. C. Forbes

The way to make a true friend is to be one. Friendship implies loyalty, esteem, cordiality, sympathy, affection, readiness to aid, to help, to stick, to fight for, if need be. … Radiate friendship and it will return sevenfold.
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Friendship Loyalty True Friend
Bragging often precedes begging.
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Begging Bragging
Opportunity can benefit no man who has not fitted himself to seize it and use it. Opportunity woos the worthy, shuns the unworthy. Prepare yourself to grasp opportunity, and opportunity is likely to come your way. It is not so fickle, capricious and unreasoning as some complain.
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Complaining Men Opportunity
The most profitless things to manufacture are excuses.
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Excuse Manufacture Profitless Thing
It is when things go hardest, when life becomes most trying, that there is greatest need for having a fixed goal.
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Basketball Goal Trying
It is not a case of whether we want to wash our hands of Europe or want to help her to regain her feet. The troubles of Europe have been laid on our doorstep, so to speak, and will plague us, if we do nothing to cure them, whether we like it or not.
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Europe Feet Hands
It’s so much easier to do good than to be good.
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Easier Good Goodness
What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.
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Confidence Courage Fear
Acting without thinking is like shooting without aiming.
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Acting Shooting Thinking
The man who is too busy to read is never likely to lead.
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Busy He-Man Men
The things that are most worthwhile in life are really those within the reach of almost every normal human being who cares to seek them out.
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Life Normal Who Cares
Upon our children-how they are taught-rests the fate-or fortune-of tomorrow’s world.
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Children Fate Inspirational
To succeed, we must have the will to succeed, we must have stamina, determination, backbone, perseverance, self-reliance, and faith.
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Determination Perseverance Self
An idea, like a machine, must have power applied to it before it can accomplish anything.
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Idea Machines Material Raw
When it comes to betting on yourself… you’re a chicken-livered coward if you hesitate.
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Betting Chickens Coward
Money, or even power, can never yield happiness unless it be accompanied by the goodwill of others.
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Goodwill Yield

It is not a case of whether we want to wash our hands of Europe or want to help her to regain her feet. The troubles of Europe have been laid on our doorstep, so to speak, and will plague us, if we do nothing to cure them, whether we like it or not.

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It is not a case of whether we want to wash our hands of Europe or want to help her to regain her feet. The troubles of Europe have been laid on our doorstep, so to speak, and will plague us, if we do nothing to cure them, whether we like it or not.

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