American - Author | August 25, 1889 - January 7, 1981
Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn't stop to enjoy it.
William Feather
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One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young.
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The reward of energy, enterprise and thrift is taxes.
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We always admire the other person more after we've tried to do his job.
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If people really liked to work, we'd still be plowing the land with sticks and transporting goods on our backs.
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One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person.
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Some of us might find happiness if we quit struggling so desperately for it.
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Here is the secret of inspiration: Tell yourself that thousands and tens of thousands of people, not very intelligent and certainly no more intelligent than the rest of us, have mastered problems as difficult as those that now baffle you.
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Back of ninety-nine out of one-hundred assertions that a thing cannot be done is nothing, but the unwillingness to do it.
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Concentrate on your job and you will forget your other troubles.
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When lying, be emphatic and indignant, thus behaving like your children.
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Few of us get anything without working for it.
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