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Advertising is like learning - a little is a dangerous thing.
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There is scarcely anything that drags a person down like debt.
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Science is the pursuit of pure truth, and the systematizing of it.
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No profession, trade, or calling, is overcrowded in the upper story.
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Politeness and civility are the best capital ever invested in business.
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Money is good for nothing unless you know the value of it by experience.
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In fact, as a general thing, money-getters are the benefactors of our race.
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The best kind of charity is to help those who are willing to help themselves.
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If you hesitate, some bolder hand will stretch out before you and get the prize.
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Fortune always favors the brave, and never helps a man who does not help himself.
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Literature is one of the most interesting and significant expressions of humanity.
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I am a showman by profession... and all the gilding shall make nothing else of me.
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There is no class of people in the world, who have such good memories as creditors.
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You must exercise your caution in laying your plans, but be bold in carrying them out.
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The public appears disposed to be amused even when they are conscious of being deceived.
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Witchcraft is one of the most baseless, absurd, disgusting and silly of all the humbugs.
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Medicine is the means by which we poor feeble creatures try to keep from dying or aching.
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Politics and government are certainly among the most important of practical human interests.
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With the young man starting in business, let him understand the value of money by earning it.
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Advertising is to a genuine article what manure is to land, - it largely increases the product.
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Let your motto then always be 'Excelsior', for by living up to it there is no such word as fail.
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The possession of a perfect knowledge of your business is an absolute necessity in order to insure success.
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The truth is, the more kind and liberal a man is, the more generous will be the patronage bestowed upon him.
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A penny here, and a dollar there, placed at interest, goes on accumulating, and in this way the desired result is attained.
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Unless a man enters upon the vocation intended for him by nature, and best suited to his peculiar genius, he cannot succeed.
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Ultimately, America's answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired.
Robert F. Kennedy
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Born:
July 5, 1810
Died:
April 7, 1891
(aged 80)
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