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There's kind of a toll you have to pay with a cat; if you don't pet her for 10 minutes she'll bother you for six hours. ↗

— Scott Adams

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When you hire that first person, then you're a boss. You've got performance reviews. You've got complaints about not making enough money. You've got people who are just going to sell your story to the tabloids. ↗

— Scott Adams

#boss #complaints #enough #first #going

Work is like the rest of life. The best parts are free. ↗

— Scott Adams

#free #life #like #parts #rest

An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of his own dear person. ↗

— Joseph Addison

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At sixty, I know little more about wisdom than I did at thirty, but I know a great deal more about folly. ↗

— Mason Cooley

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So I departed and was free from imprisonment. ↗

— William Adams

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So that between the Cape of St. Maria and Japan we were four months and twenty-two days; at which time there were no more than six besides myself that could stand upon his feet. ↗

— William Adams

#between #cape #could #days #feet

Social advance depends as much upon the process through which it is secured as upon the result itself. ↗

— Jane Addams

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Finance, like time, devours its own children. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#devours #finance #like #own #time

Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed. ↗

— Joseph Addison

#agreeable #because #before #curiosity #everything