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A professional is someone who can do his best work when he doesnt

A professional is someone who can do his best work when he doesnt feel like it. – Alistair Cooke

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Curiosity…endows the people who have it with a generosity in argument and a serenity in cheerful willingness to let life take the form it will. – Alistair Cooke

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Curiosity
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It has been an unchallengeable American doctrine that cranberry sauce, a pink goo with overtones of sugared tomatoes, is a delectable necessity of the Thanksgiving board and that turkey is uneatable without it. – Alistair Cooke

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Thanksgiving Day
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We have not overthrown the divine right of kings to fall down for the divine right of experts. – Harold MacMillan

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What is an expert? Someone who is twenty miles from home. – Proverb

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The public do not know enough to be experts, but know enough to decide between them. – Samuel Butler

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Through all the employments of life each neighbor abuses his brother; whore and rogue they call husband and wife: All professions be-rogue one another. – John Gay

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That destructive siren, sloth, is ever to be avoided. – Horace

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