"Consider carefully before you say a hard word to a man, but never let a chance to say a good one go by. Praise judiciously bestowed is money invested."

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Source : George Horace Lorimer (2016). “Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to his Son”, p.77, Lulu.com

George Horace Lorimer

#Men Quotes #Chance Quotes #Praise Quotes

“Mealtime's the only time I get to devote to the things of the spirit.”
“My mother's work ethic, her attitude, and the way she treated each and every customer as if they were her best friend were better lessons than could be found in all the text books in the world.”
“One of the advantages of travelling the world is that you get to know the world broadly. And one of the advantages of staying in one place is that you get to know the world deeply.”
“Transform your employees into passionate disciples. Teach. Create apostles. Give people a calling, not a job.”
“The economy of human time is the next advantage of machinery in manufactures.”

Source : Charles Babbage (1841). “On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures”, p.8
“The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.”

Source : Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Thoreau on Nature: Sage Words on Finding Harmony with the Natural World”, p.21, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
“There is iconoclasm in the excessively intellectual, and they delight in destroying their dearest moral or sentimental idols, the better to prove their strength.”

Source : Paul Bourget (1908). “Cosmopolis: Crowned by the French Academy”
“marrows - alas! - are arriving in a steady stream at the back door. ... Oddly enough, the majority of people who grow them in Fairacre say, as they hand them over: 'Funny thing! I don't care for them myself. In fact, none of the family likes them!' But still they plant them. It must be the fascination of seeing such a wonderful return for one small seed, that keeps marrow-growers at their dubious task.”

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