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Without bigots, eccentrics, cranks and heretics the world would no

Without bigots, eccentrics, cranks and heretics the world would not progress. – Gelett Burgess

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Ah, yes, I wrote the Purple Cow — Im sorry, now, I wrote it! But I can tell you, anyhow, Ill kill you if you quote it. – Gelett Burgess

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When the archer misses the mark, he turns and looks for the fault within himself. Failure to hit the bulls eye is never the fault of the target. To improve your aim — improve yourself. – Gilbert Arland

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Every convenience brings its own inconveniences along with it. – Proverb

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There is no use whatever trying to help people who do not help themselves. You cannot push anyone up a ladder unless he be willing to climb himself. – Andrew Carnegie

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Modern invention has banished the spinning wheel, and the same law of progress makes the woman of today a different woman from her grandmother. – Susan B. Anthony

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