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"Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion."

"The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is useless. To others, who are late to develop, it just enables them to finish the job."

"Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle."

"The offhand decision of some commonplace mind high in office at a critical moment influences the course of events for a hundred years."

"Life with a man is more businesslike after it, and money matters work better. And then, you see, if you have rows, and he turns you out of doors, you can get the law to protect you, which you can't otherwise, unless he half-runs you through with a knife, or cracks your noddle with a poker. And if he bolts away from you--I say it friendly, as woman to woman, for there's never any knowing what a man med do-- you'll have the sticks o' furniture, and won't be looked upon as a thief."

"When you've made up your mind to marry, take the first respectable body that comes to hand - she's as good as any other; they be all alike in groundwork: 'tis only in the flourishes there's a difference."
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"Live is not about constantly fighting to keep someone in your life. It is about constantly fighting for a better life together."
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