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Positive anything is better than negative nothing. ↗

— Elbert Hubbard

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To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing. ↗

— Elbert Hubbard

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The President has a quick and able mind, though not everybody gives him that, not by a long shot. ↗

— Herman Wouk

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The Opera is obviously the first draft of a fine spectacle; it suggests the idea of one. ↗

— Jean de la Bruyere

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There are certain things in which mediocrity is not to be endured, such as poetry, music, painting, public speaking. ↗

— Jean de la Bruyere

#certain things #endured #mediocrity #music #painting

There are only three events in a man's life; birth, life, and death; he is not conscious of being born, he dies in pain, and he forgets to live. ↗

— Jean de la Bruyere

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There is not in the world so toilsome a trade as the pursuit of fame; life concludes before you have so much as sketched your work. ↗

— Jean de la Bruyere

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To be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of indifferent things; but among them, everything is equal. ↗

— Jean de la Bruyere

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We must laugh before we are happy, for fear of dying without having laughed at all. ↗

— Jean de la Bruyere

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We should keep silent about those in power; to speak well of them almost implies flattery; to speak ill of them while they are alive is dangerous, and when they are dead is cowardly. ↗

— Jean de la Bruyere

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