"He that places himself neither higher nor lower than he ought to do exercises the truest humility."

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Charles Caleb Colton

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“All you need for a lifetime of successful investing is a few big winners, and the pluses from those will overwhelm the minuses from the stocks that don't work out.”
“I used to stand outside the theater knowing the truant officer was looking for me. I would stand there 'til someone came along and then ask them to buy my ticket.”
“Withdraw allegiance from the old categories of the Negative (law, limit, castration, lack, lacuna), which the Western thought has so long held sacred as a form of power and an access to reality. Prefer what is positive and multiple, difference over uniformity, flows over unities, mobile arrangements over systems. Believe that what is productive is not sedentary but nomadic.”
“When I was a graduate student at Harvard, I learned about showers and central heating. Ten years later, I learned about breakfast meetings. These are America's three great contributions to civilization.”
“I'm learning that when you get out into the world and you try things, it's amazing that you'll find how strong you are when you have to be.”
“I think of myself as a journeyman actress. I will attempt almost anything that I think that I can bring off. It could be almost anything.”
“It was irritating to have one's physical shortcomings pointed out quite so plainly twice in one evening, once by a beautiful girl and once by a dying badger.”

Source : "Expecting Someone Taller". Book by Tom Holt, 1987.
“People who canâ€™t see without glasses should wear them.”

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