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Quote by Benjamin Haydon
When a man is no longer anxious to do better than well, he is done

When a man is no longer anxious to do better than well, he is done for. – Benjamin Haydon

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The longer a man lives in this world the more he must be convinced that all domestic quarrels had better never be obtruded on the public; for, let the husband be right, or let him be wrong, there is always a sympathy existing for women which is certain to give the man the worst of it. – Benjamin Haydon

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