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"What is my loftiest ambition? I've always wanted to throw an egg at an electric fan."
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"He had the ruthlessness of uninterrupted success."
"There is practically nothing in life you are set out to do that you cannot accomplish, it only takes you to make you."
"She had always wanted to do every thing, and had made more progress in both drawing and music than many might have done with so little labour as she ever would submit to... She was not much deceived as to her own skill either as an artist or a musician, but she was not unwilling to have others deceived, or sorry to know her reputation for accomplishment often higher than it deserved."
"To spend your time wanting things is to smother your time for achieving things beyond your expectations."
"...I say to you, without pleasure, that this son of ours will be a great man, because -- well -- because he is not very intelligent. He can see only one desire at a time. I said he tested his dreams; he will murder every dream with the implacable arrows of his will. This boy will win to every goal of his aiming; for he can realize no thought, no reason, but his own. And I am sorry for his coming greatness..."
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"The Irish gave the bagpipes to the Scotts as a joke, but the Scotts haven't seen the joke yet."
"A man must love a thing very much if he not only practices it without any hope of fame and money, but even... without any hope of doing it well."
"When I go abroad I always sail from Boston because it is such a pleasant place to get away from."
"Darling: the popular form of address used in speaking to a member of the opposite sex whose name you cannot at the moment remember."
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