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• What they said: What they meant: "You will be fortunate if you can get him to work for you.
  (We certainly never succeeded.) There is no other employee with whom I can adequately compare him....
• A man desires praise that he may be reassured, that he may be quit of his doubting of himself
  he is indifferent to applause when he is confident of success. -- Alec Waugh...
• Happy the man, and happy he alone, He who can call to-day his ow
  He who, secure within, can say, To-morrow, do thy worst, for I have liv'd to-day....
• My father's great dread was going senile, said one aristocrat, apologizing for his father, who was happily exposing himself in the orangery.
  But now he has, he's enjoying himself enormously. -- Jilly Coope...
• The only measure of a man's usefulness is the extent to which he exercises his talent, according to the laws of his own growth, for the common good.
  -- Stanley Kunitz...
• That man that hath a tongue, I say, is no man, If with his tongue he cannot win a woman.
  -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), The Two Gentlemen of Verona -- Act iii, Sc. 1...
• A man can never know his capabilities till he has freed them, and this testing process involves risk.
  -- A. F. Mummery...
• Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them. -- Old Testament -- Psalm cxxvii, 5
• He doth nothing but talk of his horse; and he makes it a great appropriation to his own good parts, that he can shoe himself.
  -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), The Merchant of Venice -- Act i, Sc. 2...