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Living up to ideals is like doing everyday work with your Sunday c

Living up to ideals is like doing everyday work with your Sunday clothes on. – Ed Howe

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None of us can boast about the morality of our ancestors. The records do not show that Adam and Eve were married. – Ed Howe

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No barber shaves so close but another finds his work. – English Proverb

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Ideals are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them with your hands. But like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them you will reach your destiny. – Carl Schurz, address, Faneuil Hall, Boston, 1859

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One that desires to excel should endeavor in those things that are in themselves most excellent. – Epictetus

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