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Orison Swett Marden

"Obstacles are like wild animals. They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can. If they see you are afraid of them... they are liable to spring upon you; but if you look them squarely in the eye, they will slink out of sight."

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"Obstacles are like wild animals. They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can. If they see you are afraid of them... they are liable to spring upon you; but if you look them squarely in the eye, they will slink out of sight."

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"Kind old ladies assure us that cats are often the best judges of character. A cat will always go to a good man, they say."

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"What greater gift than the love of a cat."

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"Towns are suffering from all these things, we should unite until we are all satisfied, man cannot be killing each other as if we were animals, as if we had no culture; that is a lack of culture."

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"Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content."

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