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I would rather have men ask why I have no statue than why I have one. – Marcus Porcius Cato

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The brighter you are, the more you have to learn. – Don Herold

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From the satisfaction of desire there may arise, accompanying joy and as it were sheltering behind it, something not unlike despair. РAndr̩ Gide, The Counterfeiters, 1925

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There is more simplicity in the man who eats caviar on impulse than in the man who eats grapenuts on principle. – G.K. Chesterton

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Probably the most honest “self-made man” ever was the one we heard say: “I got to the top the hard way — fighting my own laziness and ignorance every step of the way.” – James Thom

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