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"It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him."
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"Huh," Leo said. "Well, if you ever get off this island and want a job, let me know. You're not a total klutz."She smirked. "A job, eh?" Making things in your forge?""Nah, we could start our own shop," Leo said, surprising himself. Starting a machine shop had always been one of his dreams, but he'd never told anyone about it. "Leo and Calypso's Garage: Auto Repair and Mechanical Monsters."
"There is nothing wrong with wanting more. There is no reason why you should n't get everything you want from life."
"To wait at Monte Cristo for the purpose of watching like a dragon over the almost incalculable richs that had thus fallen into his possession satisfied not the cravings of his heart, which yearned to return to dwell among mankind, and to assume the rank, power, and influence which are always accorded to wealth - that first and greatest of all the forces within the grasp of man."
"In order to have success, you have to concentrate on your goals."
"It is never late, pursuit your ambitions."
"The life you wish you had will come by working like you never have."
"Life is full of limitless opportunities. You ought to seek them."
"An ambitious amateur will rise above a complacent master."
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"Liza hated alcoholic liquors with an iron zeal. Drinking alcohol in any form she regarded as a crime against a properly outraged deity... When LIza was about seventy her elimination slowed up and her doctor told her to take a tablespoon of port wine for medicine. She forced down the first spoonful, making a crooked face, but it was not so bad. And from that moment she never drew a completely sober breath. She always took the wine in a tablespoon, it was always medicine, but after a time she was doing over a quart a day and she was a much more relaxed and happy woman."
"No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself."
"I have never smuggled anything in my life. Why, then, do I feel an uneasy sense of guilt on approaching a customs barrier?"
"It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it."
"Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen."
"I have owed you this letter for a very long time-but my fingers have avoided the pencil as though it were an old and poisoned tool."
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