"There must be such a thing as a child with average ability, but you can't find a parent who will admit that it is his child."

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"There must be such a thing as a child with average ability, but you can't find a parent who will admit that it is his child."

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"Ability without honor is useless."

Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman Statesman

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"The abilities of man must fall short on one side or the other, like too scanty a blanket when you are abed. If you pull it upon your shoulders, your feet are left bare; if you thrust it down to your feet, your shoulders are uncovered."

Thomas Paine, English Writer

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"I like to think of sales as the ability to gracefully persuade, not manipulate, a person or persons into a win-win situation."

Bo Bennett, American Businessman

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"Those who can't, try: those who can, don't have to."

Idries Shah, Indian Author

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"Martyrdom: The only way a man can become famous without ability."

George Bernard Shaw, Irish Dramatist

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"We are all capable of being great dreamers."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"If I drive myself to the brink of my ability, then I don't get stale or bored."

Dean Koontz, American Author

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"What I do I do very well and what I don't do well I don't do at all."

Anonymous, Unknown Unknown

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"The size of a fish does not determine its speed."

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

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"A book comes and says, "Write me." My job is to try to serve it to the best of my ability, which is never good enough, but all I can do is listen to it, do what it tells me and collaborate."

Madeleine L'Engle, American Novelist

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"True art selects and paraphrases, but seldom gives a verbatim translation."

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"Books that have become classics - books that have had their day and now get more praise than perusal - always remind me of retired colonels and majors and captains who, having reached the age limit, find themselves retired on half pay."

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"The man who suspects his own tediousness is yet to be born."

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"The ocean moans over dead men's bones."

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"I like to have a thing suggested rather than told in full. When every detail is given, the mind rests satisfied, and the imagination loses the desire to use its own wings."

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"A man is known by the company his mind keeps."

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"No bird has ever uttered note That was not in some first bird's throat; Since Eden's freshness and man's fall No rose has been original."

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"To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent - that is to triumph over old age."

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"Civilization is the lamb's skin in which barbarism masquerades."

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