Next to the dog, the wastebasket is your best friend.
B. C. FORBESLady Luck generally woos those who earnestly, enthusiastically, unremittingly woo her.
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Time mends all, ends all things earthly.
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The real friend is he or she who can share all our sorrow and double our joys.
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Justice must be blind to the hardness or softness of a man’s hands, as well as to the leanness or fatness of his pocketbook
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Acting without thinking is like shooting without aiming.
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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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Backboneless employees are too ready to attribute the success of others to luck. Luck is usually the fruit of intelligent application. The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.
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The men who have done big things are those who were not afraid to attempt big things, who were not afraid to risk failure in order to gain success.
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Any business arrangement that is not profitable to the other fellow will in the end prove unprofitable for you. The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated.
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A shady business never yields a sunny life.
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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.
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Lady Luck generally woos those who earnestly, enthusiastically, unremittingly woo her.
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He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.
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Kill time and you will kill your career.
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The person who renders loyal service in a humble capacity will be chosen for higher responsibilities, just as the biblical servant who multiplied the one pound given him by his master was made ruler over ten cities.
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The man without religion is as a ship without a rudder.
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