Thoroughnesscharacterizes

Thoroughnesscharacterizes
Thoroughnesscharacterizes all successful men. Genius is the art of taking infinite pains.All great achievement has been characterized by extreme care, infinitepainstaking, even to the minutest detail.
  

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The average man’s life consists of: Twenty years of having his mother ask him where he is going, Forty years of having his wife ask the same question; and at the end, the mourners wondering too.
A shipin harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.
Bargainlike a gypsy, but pay like a gentleman.
Comedy is an escape, not from the truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.
Negotiatingmeans getting the best of your opponent.
Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism.
Whohath not known ill fortune, never knew himself, or his own virtue.
Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
Patriotism is not a short and frenzied outbrust of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.
I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us,that the less we use our power the greater it will be.
Concentration of wealth will never be a problem as long as we have those three great institutions for redistributing it: Taxes, wives, offspring.
The good rain like a bad preacher, does not know when to leave off.