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If a secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader! ↗

— William Makepeace Thackeray

#author #become #books #could #down

First you have to spread on the rust performer, then you add a coat of protective enamel, and then you spray on the satin finish so you look good. ↗

— Vinny Testaverde

#coat #finish #first #good #look

Soon after I was born, my parents moved to the South Florida area, and I've lived here ever since (with a few years of living in both Portugal and Brazil in my younger days). ↗

— Joe Tex

#area #born #both #brazil #days

Well, my hand never fell off, and within no time, I was bowling competitively in leagues and tournaments. ↗

— Joe Tex

#competitively #fell #hand #i #leagues

Do not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better make the horizon your goal; it will always be ahead of you. ↗

— William Makepeace Thackeray

#ahead #always #better #goal #horizon

Credit you give yourself is not worth having. ↗

— Irving Thalberg

#give #having #worth #you #yourself

Nothing is more active than thought, for it travels over the universe, and nothing is stronger than necessity for all must submit to it. ↗

— Thales

#more #must #necessity #nothing #over

Every conceivable cruel method of blackmail was used against me to obtain by force and at all costs confessions and statements both about comrades who had been arrested, and about political activities. ↗

— Ernst Thalmann

#activities #against #arrested #been #both

I know I can get to the stage where I'm drinking a lot. I tend to be rotten and groggy all day and hanging out for the next drink and five o'clock, ping! I have to just stop. ↗

— Trisha Goddard

#clock #day #drink #drinking #five

I'm always pushing for human responsibility. Given that chimpanzees and many other animals are sentient and sapient, then we should treat them with respect. ↗

— Jane Goodall

#given #human #i #many #other