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
B. C. FORBESBragging often precedes begging.
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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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Golf is an ideal diversion, but a ruinous disease.
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If you do the best and the most you can today, don’t worry about tomorrow.
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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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Jealousy… is a mental cancer.
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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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There’s no such thing as a self-made man. I’ve had much help and have found that if you are willing to work, many people are willing to help you.
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Without self-respect there can be no genuine success. Success won at the cost of self-respect is not success ? for what shall it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own self-respect.
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Lady Luck generally woos those who earnestly, enthusiastically, unremittingly woo her.
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The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated.
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The man of fixed ingrained principles who has mapped out a straight course, and has the courage and self-control to adhere to it, does not find life complex. Complexities are all of our own making.
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The man who is cocksure that he has arrived is ready for the return journey.
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Diamonds are only lumps of coal that stuck to their jobs.
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Honesty is the cornerstone of character.
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The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.
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