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Thursday, 24 July 2008

Daily Quote: "Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown." (Beecher, Henry Ward - Success)

Proverb of the Day

All that glitters is not gold.

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Browse Quotations by Talleyrand, Charles Maurice De

She is such a good friend that she would throw all her acquaintances into the water for the pleasure of fishing them out again.

Love of glory can only create a great hero; contempt of glory creates a great man.

I am more afraid of an army of 100 sheep led by a lion than an army of 100 lions led by a sheep.

Merit, however inconsiderable, should be sought for and rewarded. Methods are the master of masters.

Too much sensibility creates unhappiness and too much insensibility creates crime.

Ones reputation is like a shadow, it is gigantic when it precedes you, and a pigmy in proportion when it follows.

The reputation of a man is like his shadow, gigantic when it precedes him, and pigmy in its proportions when it follows.

Speech has been given to man to disguise his thoughts.

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