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"Who are the happiest people on earth? A craftsman or artist whistling over a job well done. A little child building sand castles. A mother, after a busy day, bathing her baby. A doctor who has finished a difficult and dangerous operation, and saved a human life. Happiness lies in a constructive job well done. Get your happiness out of your work or you will never know what happiness is."
"Every man should have a college education in order to show him how little the thing is really worth."
"What others say of me matters little; what I myself say and do matters much."
"A woman will doubt everything you say except it be compliments to herself."
"When on the brink of complete discouragement, success is discerning that...the line between failure and success is so fine that often a single extra effort is all that is needed to bring victory out of defeat."
"A school should not be a preparation for life. A school should be life."
"It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test."
"Dignity is a mask we wear to hide our ignorance."
"The great man is not so great as folks think, and the dull man is not quite so stupid as he seems. The difference in our estimates of men lies in the fact that one individual is able to get his goods into the show-window, and the other is not aware that he has any show-window or any goods."
"Punishment - The justice that the guilty deal out to those that are caught."
"Conformists die, but heretics live forever."
"As a rule, the man who can do all things equally well is a very mediocre individual."
"Progress comes from the intelligent use of experience."
"Man is not what he thinks he is, but what he thinks, he is."
"The more one knows, the more one simplifies."
"Down in their hearts, wise men know this truth: the only way to help yourself is to help others."
"I do not read a book; I hold a conversation with the author."
"There is something that is much more scarce, something finer far, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability."
"In order to have friends, you must first be one."
"To make mistakes is human, but to profit from them is divine."