The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher.
ELBERT HUBBARDSelf-discipline is the ability to make yourself do what you should do, when you should do it, whether you feel like it or not.
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The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.
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A woman will doubt everything you say except it be compliments to herself.
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I do not read a book; I hold a conversation with the author.
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Reason: The arithmetic of the emotions.
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Make two grins grow where there was only a grouch before.
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Progress comes from the intelligent use of experience.
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Be yourself and think for yourself, and while your conclusions may not be infallible they will be nearer right than the inclusions forced upon you by those who have a personal interest in keeping you in ignorance.
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As we grow better, we meet better people.
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Men are rich only as they give. He who gives great service gets great rewards.
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A man who marries a woman to educate her falls victim to the same fallacy as the woman who marries a man to reform him.
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Politicians regard the public as a cow to be milked.
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One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
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A goal without a plan is a dream.
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Of all the mental and physical polluters of life, nothing exercises such a poisonous effect as fear.
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A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.
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