"People who have accomplished work worthwhile have had a very high sense of the way to do things. They have not been content with mediocrity. They have not confined themselves to the beaten tracks; they have never been satisfied to do things just as others so them, but always a little better. They always pushed things that came to their hands a little higher up, this little farther on, that counts in the quality of life's work. It is constant effort to be first-class in everything one attempts that conquers the heights of excellence."

-- Orison Swett Marden

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“She clutched the train ticket tighter and waited for the sense of escape to come over her as it had a dozen times before, that heady sensation of having just scooted through the clanging gate, of eluding the thrown net. It didn't come. She was running again, but she wasn't escaping. She'd been chased to ground a long, long time ago.”

Source : Connie Brockway (2007). “The Bridal Season: A Loveswept Classic Romance”, Loveswept
“History has now been for the first time systematically considered, and has been found, like other phenomena, subject to invariable laws.”
“Masonry superadds to our other obligations the strongest ties of connection between it and the cultivation of virtue, and furnishes the most powerful incentives to goodness.”
“There can no great smoke arise, but there must be some fire.”
“The theater is a baffling business, and a shockingly wasteful one when you consider that people who have proven their worth, who have appeared in or been responsible for successful plays, who have given outstanding performances, can still, in the full tide of their energy, be forced, through lack of opportunity, to sit idle season after season, their enthusiasm, their morale, their very talent dwindling to slow gray death. Of finances we will not even speak; it is too sad a tale.”

Source : Ilka Chase (1945). “Past Imperfect”, Pocket Books of Canada
“My purpose in life does not include a hankering to charm society.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“We shall now seek that which we shall not find”

Source : Sir Thomas Malory (1962). “Le morte d'Arthur: King Arthur and the legends of the Round Table”, Signet
“The dog has behaved himself quite well all day, and the show is doing fantastically well in the ratings... I have no reason to be sad!”

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