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Repeat anything often enough and it will start to become you. ↗

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No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination. ↗

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I find in working always the disturbing intrusion of elements not a part of my most interested vision, and the inevitable obliteration and replacement of this vision by the work itself as it proceeds. ↗

— Edward Hopper

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For the last half of my life I have had the doubtful benefit of a brother whose literary reputation is much greater than my own. ↗

— Laurence Housman

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I would give no thought of what the world might say of me, if I could only transmit to posterity the reputation of an honest man. ↗

— Sam Houston

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There were periods when I sometimes made fires in a large, open fireplace that lasted about two weeks, which was how long it took to burn my compositions. So there has been an awful lot that I have destroyed. ↗

— Alan Hovhaness

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Marriage is a good deal like a circus: there is not as much in it as is represented in the advertising. ↗

— E. W. Howe

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The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today. ↗

— Elbert Hubbard

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All we can do is be better prepared today than yesterday and better prepared tomorrow than today. ↗

— James Howell

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Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street. ↗