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An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered; an adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered.

G. K. Chesterton

Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.

Worry is interest paid on trouble before it falls due.

William Ralph Inge

Either you think - or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn't matter to me … Going to bed at night saying we've done something wonderful... that's what matters to me.

On the success of Bill Gates and Microsoft

Until the day when God shall deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is summed up in these two words: wait and hope.

Alexandre Dumas

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If you see what is right and fail to act on it, you lack courage.

I have a heart with room for every joy.

Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive.

A great change in life is like a cold bath in winter — we all hesitate at the first plunge.

If you want work well done, select a busy man‚ the other kind has no time.

The enemy of a love is never outside, it's not a man or woman, it's what we lack in ourselves.