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• Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.
  -- Francis, Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) -- Maxim 226...
• Anyone can be great with money. With money, greatness is not a talent but an obligation.
  The trick is to be great without money. -- Italo Bombolini...
• A man said to the Universe: "Sir, I exist!" "However," replied the Universe, "the fact has not created in me a sense of obligation.
  -- Stephen Crane, "War is Kind", 1899...
• Great thoughts come from the heart. -- Marquis of Vauvenargues (1715-1747) -- Maxim cxxvii
• There is great ability in knowing how to conceal one's ability. (Maxim 245)
• He gets through too late who goes too fast. -- Publius Syrus (42 BC) -- Maxim 767
• No obligation. No salesman will call.
• Life is short and we never have enough time for gladdening the hearts of those who travel the way with us.
  Oh, be swift to love! Make haste to be kind. -- Henri Frederic Amiel (1821-1881)...
• There is no road too long to the man who advances deliberately and without undue haste
  here are no honours too distant to the man who prepares himself for them with patience....