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• But if a man happens to find himself ... he has a mansion which he can inhabit with dignity all the days of his life.
• He who envies another admits his own inferiorities.
• The only true time which a man can properly call his own, is that which he has all to himself
  he rest, though in some sense he may be said to live it, is other people's time, not his....
• None of our men are "experts." We have most unfortunately found it necessary to get rid of a man as soon as he thinks himself an expert -- because no one ever considers himself expert if he really knows his job.
  A man who knows a job sees so much more to be done than he has done, that he is always pressing forward and never gives up an instant of thought to how good and how efficient he is....
• None of our men are "experts." We have most unfortunately found it necessary to get rid of a man as soon as he thinks himself an expert -- because no one ever considers himself expert if he really knows his job.
  A man who knows a job sees so much more to be done than he has done, that he is always pressing forward and never gives up an instant of thought to how good and how efficient he is....
• Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power. -- Seneca
• No man can possibly improve in any company for which he has not respect enough to be under some degree of restraint.
  -- Chesterfield...
• Homer: This isn't fair! How can you tell who's sane and who's insane?
  Doctor: Well, we have a very simple method. [stamps his hand, `INSANE'] Whoever has that stamp on his hand is insane....
• There is not a man in the country that can't make a living for himself and his family.
  But he can't make a living for them AND the government, too, the way his government is living....