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• No man who needs a monument ever ought to have one -- Nathaniel Hawthorne
• The man who gets on best with women is the one who knows best how to get on without them.
  -- Pierre Baudelaire...
• Well, anyway, I was reading this James Bond book, and right away I realized that like most books, it had too many words.
  The plot was the same one that all James Bond books have...
• The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may going to prove one's self a fool.
  -- Nathaniel Hawthorne...
• It is extraordinary how potent cheap music is. -- Noel Coward
• 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....
• Life is made up of marble and mud. -- Nathaniel Hawthorne
• Mountains are earth's undecaying monuments. -- Nathaniel Hawthorne