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"The man who has the courage of his platitudes is always a successful man."
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"In the pursuit of goals, you cannot give up anytime you feel uncomfortable."

"You will reap tomorrow what you are sowing today."

"Consistency is the belt that fastens excellence in position. If you don't do it repeatedly, you'll not excel in it."

"Every big castle was once started with a single block, despise no small beginnings. A little step taken every day builds up the hope of greater accomplishments. Do something every day!"

"You were born with success in you and simply need to give it a pathway of expression."
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"The American mind, unlike the English, is not formed by books, but, as Carl Sandburg once said to me... by newspapers and the Bible."

"It is not that the French are not profound, but they all express themselves so well that we are led to take their geese for swans."

"People of small caliber are always carping. They are bent on showing their own superiority, their knowledge or prowess or good breeding."

"Magnanimous people have no vanity, they have no jealousy, and they feed on the true and the solid wherever they find it. And, what is more, they find it everywhere."

"No one is fit to judge a book until he has rounded Cape Horn in a sailing vessel, until he has bumped into two or three icebergs, until he has been lost in the sands of the desert, until he has spent a few years in the House of the Dead."

"If men were basically evil, who would bother to improve the world instead of giving it up as a bad job at the outset?"

"There is no stopping the world's tendency to throw off imposed restraints, the religious authority that is based on the ignorance of the many, the political authority that is based on the knowledge of the few."
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