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"True wisdom often comes from the experience of failure-not from success."
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Personal Development

"I'm not much of a believer in the so-called character study; I think that in the end, the story should always be the boss."
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Personal Development

"It is by a mathematical point only that we are wise, as the sailor or fugitive slave keeps the polestar in his eye; but that is sufficient guidance for all our life. We may not arrive at our port within a calculable period, but we would preserve the true course."
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Personal Development

"The intelligent are candles, the virtuous are torches, the wise are lamps, and the enlightened are stars."
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Personal Development

"Kill your darlings, kill your darlings, even when it breaks your egocentric little scribbler's heart, kill your darlings."
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Personal Development

"A healthy amount of fear and respect might be a good idea."
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Personal Development

"Because of ignorance and negligence we lost the most precious value-life."
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Personal Development

"To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't everything."
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Personal Development

"When an ordinary man attains knowledge, he is a sage; when a sage attains understanding, he is an ordinary man."
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Personal Development

"Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise."
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"Do not be desirous of having things done quickly. Do not look at small advantages. Desire to have things done quickly prevents their being done thoroughly. Looking at small advantages prevents great affairs from being accomplished."
Being

"Don't talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave."
Talk

"To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it."
Wisdom

"All anger is not sinful, because some degree of it, and on some occasions, is inevitable. But it becomes sinful and contradicts the rule of Scripture when it is conceived upon slight and inadequate provocation, and when it continues long."
Anger

"If you steal from one author it's plagiarism; if you steal from many it's research."
Plagiarism

"If you count all your assets you always show a profit."
Profit

"A drama critic is a person who surprises the playwright by informing him what he meant."
Drama

"Hollywood is a sewer with service from the Ritz Carlton."
Hollywood

"I've had ample contact with lawyers, and I'm convinced that the only fortune they ever leave is their own."
Fortune

"I hate careless flattery, the kind that exhausts you in your efforts to believe it."
Flattery
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