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"Roused by the lash of his own stubborn tail our lion now will foreign foes assail."
Now

"The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one."
Family

"Genius must be born, and never can be taught."
Genius

"Boldness is a mask for fear, however great."
Fear

"Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone."
Age

"All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey."
Fate

"Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten."
Anger

"He who would search for pearls must dive below."
Writing

"When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit."
Life

"Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide."
Philosophy
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"That most limited of all specialists, the "well-rounded man"."
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"The world system is employment."
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"Police officers are poorly paid for a very stressful job that has them in very high powered radio frequency (RF) fields and in a daily environment that may result in them being assaulted, maimed or killed."
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"A butler supplies food to nourish your body, but a writer nourishes your mind through writing."
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"Do not be weary to make money."
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"My favourite all-time work of fiction: Lord of the Rings. My favourite all-time nonfiction book: Guns, Germs, and Steel. Ask me again next week, you'll get a different answer."
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"Employers are at their happiest on Mondays. Employees are at their happiest on Fridays."
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"Work was intended not to give a man a reason to live, but rather to give him a means to live."
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"Next to us is not the workman whom we have hired, with whom we love so well to talk, but the workman whose work we are."
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"Be robust enough to work more than a robot!"
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