Temporary release from work, through vacations, becomes more welcome, more pleasurable, even more necessary, as we grow older.
B. C. FORBESA business like an automobile, has to be driven, in order to get results.
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It’s so much easier to do good than to be good.
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Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious.
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Christmas moves us to think of others rather than of ourselves & directs our thoughts to giving.
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Many a man thinks he is patient when, in reality, he is indifferent.
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Work done with little effort is likely to yield little result.
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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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A shady business never yields a sunny life.
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If a pig could pray, it would pray for swill. What do you pray for?
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Golf is an ideal diversion, but a ruinous disease.
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You have no idea how big the other fellow’s troubles are.
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A word of appreciation often can accomplish what nothing else could accomplish.
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How you start is important, but it is how you finish that counts. In the race for success, speed is less important than stamina. The sticker outlasts the sprinter.
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…the incontestable truth is that America has been built up by optimists, not by pessimists, but by men possessing courage, confidence in the nation’s destiny, by men willing to adventure, to shoulder risks terrifying to the timid.
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We must learn that to enjoy happiness we must conscientiously and continuously seek to spread happiness. Selfishness is suicidal to happiness.
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If the United States is to produce a nation of investors-as we must if we are to gain financial world-leadership-it is imperative that boards of directors be so constituted as to adequately represent the interests and inspire the complete confidence of investors of moderate substance.
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