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"It is of no consequence of what parents a man is born, as long as he be a man of merit."

Horace

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There are few cases in which mere popularity should be considered a proper test of merit; but the case of song-writing is, I think, one of the few.

Edgar Allan Poe

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"Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example."

Mark Twain

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"The path of precept is long, that of example short and effectual."

Seneca

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"The essence of a free government consists in an effectual control of rivalries."

John Adams

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"Feeling is the consciousness of the resulting conditions - of success, failure, equilibrium, compromise or balance, in this continuous rivalry of ideas."

James M. Baldwin

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"Some people should just start ideas and other ones should carry them out."

Jimi Hendrix

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When a man comes to me for advice, I find out the kind of advice he wants, and I give it to him.

Josh Billings

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"He makes people pleased with him by making them first pleased with themselves."

Lord Chesterfield

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A person places themselves on a level with the ones they praise.


Johann Wolfgang von Goethe