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Ten Random Quotes

"A mass of dust, world's momentary slave, Is man, in state of our old Adam made, Soon born to die, soon flourishing to fade."
Barnabe Barnes

"Bulls do not win bull fights. People do."
Norman Augustine

"By protracting life, we do not deduct one jot from the duration of death."
Titus Lucretius Carus

"In the business world an executive knows something about everything, a technician knows everything about something and the switchboard operator knows everything."
Harold Coffin

"Behind every successful man is a proud wife and a surprised mother-in-law."
Hubert H. Humphrey

"The most dangerous people are the ignorant."
Henry Ward Beecher

"To have died once is enough."
Virgil

"No truly great person ever thought themselves so."
William Hazlitt

"The joys of parents are secret, and so are their grieves and fears."
Francis Bacon

"In composing, as a general rule, run a pen through every other word you have written; you have no idea what vigor it will give your style."
Sydney Smith

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