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Aim at perfection in everything, though in most things it is unattainable. However, they who aim at it, and persevere, will come much nearer to it than those whose laziness and despondency make them give it up as unattainable. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

#come #despondency #everything #give #however

The only way of catching a train I have ever discovered is to miss the train before. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#catching #discovered #ever #i #miss

On the morrow the horizon was covered with clouds- a thick and impenetrable curtain between earth and sky, which unhappily extended as far as the Rocky Mountains. It was a fatality! ↗

— Jules Verne

#between #covered #curtain #earth #extended

In so far as the mind is stronger than the body, so are the ills contracted by the mind more severe than those contracted by the body. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#contracted #far #ills #mind #more

I like my women to be feminine, not sliding into tackles and covered in mud. ↗

— Brian Clough

#feminine #i #into #like #mud

Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#chains #discovered #fetter #mind #tyrants

The man who builds a factory builds a temple, that the man who works there worships there, and to each is due, not scorn and blame, but reverence and praise. ↗

— Calvin Coolidge

#builds #due #each #factory #man

I discovered something amazing, which has caused a lot of controversy - the fountain of youth. I have to keep it a secret! ↗

— David Copperfield

#caused #controversy #discovered #fountain #i

If I think too much about all of those Chinese factories where all the stuff in a Wal-Mart is made, I get that woozy feeling you get when you see ducks covered in crude oil. ↗

— Doug Coupland

#chinese #covered #crude #crude oil #ducks

We've discovered the secret of life. ↗

— Francis Crick

#discovered the secret #life #secret