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Theodore Roosevelt

When you play, play hard; when you work, don't play at all. --Theodore Roosevelt

Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it. --Thomas Jefferson

Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough. --Abraham Lincoln

If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody. --Agatha Christie

I was so naive as a kid I used to sneak behind the barn and do nothing. --Johnny Carson

Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature. --Charles Dickens

It's amazing that the amount of news that happens in the world every day always just exactly fits the newspaper. --Jerry Seinfeld

The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he's on. --Joseph Heller, Catch 22

Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye. --Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power. --Seneca




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