Quote by Calvin Coolidge
If you see ten troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that

If you see ten troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that nine will run into the ditch before they reach you. – Calvin Coolidge

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No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave. – Calvin Coolidge

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Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity. – Calvin Coolidge

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We need more of the Office Desk and less of the Show Window in politics. Let men in office substitute the midnight oil for the limelight. – Calvin Coolidge

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How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened. – Thomas Jefferson

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The great citizen, the first-born son of the New World. – Simón Bolívar

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I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow. – Woodrow Wilson

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Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. Point out to them how the nominal winner is often a real loser – in fees, expenses, and waste of time. As a peacemaker the lawyer has a superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough. – Abraham Lincoln

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