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"Insist on yourself never imitate. Your own gift you can present every moment with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation but of the adopted talent of another you have only an extemporaneous half possession... Do that which is assigned to you, and you cannot hope too much or dare too much." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed." »Winston Churchill
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"Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities." »Aristotle
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"Houses are built to live in, not to look on therefore, let use be preferred before uniformity, except where both may be had." »Francis Bacon
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"Houses are built to live in, not to look on; therefore, let use be preferred before uniformity, except where both may be had." »Sir Francis Bacon, Essays: Of Building, 1623
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"Most maxim-mongers have preferred the prettiness to the justness of a thought, and the turn to the truth but I have refused myself to everything that my own experience did not justify and confirm." »Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield
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