“The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don’t want, drink what you don’t like, and do what you’d rather not.”
Mark Twain, quoted in the Worcester, Mass., Telegram & Gazette
“If you set your goals ridiculously high and it’s a failure, you will fail above everyone else’s success.”
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English author Thomas Fuller, quoted in the Johannesburg Business Day
“A stout heart breaks bad luck.”
Miguel de Cervantes, quoted in the Montreal Gazette
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Jon Stewart, quoted in MSNBC.com
“Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he isn’t, and a sense of humor to console him for what he is.”
Sir Francis Bacon, quoted in the London Independent
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