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"Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run."
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"The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it."

"San Francisco is a mad city - inhabited for the most part by perfectly insane people whose women are of a remarkable beauty."

"He wrapped himself in quotations - as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors."
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"The true worth of an experimenter consists in his pursuing not only what he seeks in his experiment, but also what he did not seek."

"Jealous, adj. Unduly concerned about the preservation of that which can be lost only if not worth keeping."

"Real worth requires no interpreter: its everyday deeds form its emblem."

"The way a book is read, which is to say, the qualities a reader brings to a book can have as much to do with its worth as anything the author puts into it."

"The picture is all he feels about it, all he thinks worth preserving of it, all he invests it with. If all the qualities which a painter took from the model for his picture were really taken, no person could be painted twice."

"If you put a ten dollar bill under the rug instead of spending it, that is capital formation. It represents ten dollars' worth of something that might have been immediately consumed, but wasn't."

"To equal a predecessor, one must have twice they worth."

"The things that one most wants to do are the things that are probably most worth doing."

"Your second-hand bookseller is second to none in the worth of the treasures he dispenses."
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