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Seek knowledge to plan, enterprise to execute, honesty to govern all.
The highest monuments are built piece by piece.
Luck is a word that does not apply to a successful man.
Time is money. Reckon the hours of the day as so many dollars, the minutes as so many cents.
Never anticipate wealth from any source but labor.
Keep out of politics unless you are sure to win--you are never sure to
win, so look out.
Self-confidence, self-reliance is your capital. Your conscience the best monitor
Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 1889 by Barkham Burroughs
Whatever real merit you have, other people will discover
The longest life is too short for knowledge
Smile, where you cannot strike
Success turns much more upon manner than matter
There are many avenues to every man
They thought I informed, because I pleased them
Pay them with compliments, but not with confidence
People hate those who make them feel their own inferiority
People lose a great deal of time by reading
Nothing so precious as time, and so irrecoverable when lost
No one feels pleasure, who does not at the same time give it
Never seem wiser, nor more learned, than the people you are with
Never seek for wit; if it presents itself, well and good
Never to speak of yourself at all
Never slattern away one minute in idleness
Never quit a subject till you are thoroughly master of it
More you know, the modester you should be
More one works, the more willing one is to work
Money, the cause of much mischief
Always look people in the face when you speak to them
A little learning is a dangerous thing
Advice is seldom welcome
Acquainted with books, and an absolute stranger to men
LETTERS TO HIS SON, 1766-1771 by The Earl of Chesterfield
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