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Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature.

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

Hell, there are no rules here-- we're trying to accomplish something.

If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.

Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.

Train up a fig tree in the way it should go, and when you are old sit under the shade of it.

I do not know the American gentleman, god forgive me for putting two such words together.

To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.

If I find 10,000 ways something won't work, I haven't failed. I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.