The World's Greatest Quotes
At first thought, to start, it has to be a Mark Twain quote.
amirite?
Like this one:
"Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society."
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Press On!
Nothing in the world can take the place of PERSISTENCE
Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent.
Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb.
Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts.
Persistence and Determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan “Press On” has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.
I am aging: there go the teeth, and soon I shall be quite hairless.
-Gustave Flaubert, age 32
From As You Like It, the ending of Jacques's Seven Ages of Man speech. As my Shakespeare teacher said, Jaques (pronounced Jakes) was the Elizabethan word for toilet, so everything out of his mouth was pure ..
Last scene of all,
That ends this strange eventful history,
Is second childishness and mere oblivion;
Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything
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