"Only in North America is it regarded as a major achievement to speak one language moderately well."

-- Dick Pound

#America Quotes #Achievement Quotes #Language Quotes

“nothing makes people crosser than being considered too old for love ...”
“Good manners - the longer I live the more convinced I am of it - are a priceless insurance against failure and loneliness. And anyone can have them.”
“I've been tired since I was 15.”
“It is a principle of law, that a person intends to do that which is the natural effect of what he does.”
“Find your purpose and fling your life out to it. Find a way or make one. Try with all your might. Self-made or never made.”
“I came back to work when my children were two months old. At that early age, they seem to have little awareness of anybody but their Raggedy Ann dolls, so it wasn't a matter of them missing me. I was missing them.”
“When liberty is mentioned, we must always be careful to observe whether it is not really the assertion of private interests which is thereby designated.”
“Despise all those things which when liberated from the body you will not want; invoke the Gods to become your helpers.”

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