"If worthless men are sometimes at the head of affairs, it is, I believe, because worthless men are at the tail and the middle"

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Source : John Adams, Benjamin Rush (1892). “Old Family Letters: Copied from the Originals for Alexander Biddle... Series A-[B]”

John Adams

#Believe Quotes #Men Quotes #Tails Quotes

“I see little alteration at Lyons since I formerly passed through it. Its manufactories are, nevertheless, flourishing, though less improvement than could be expected is visible in the external aspect of the place.”
“Shift your energy from protecting yourself from failure to squeezing the life out of life.”
“Setting can be something that is a major player in a scene, something that makes the mood leap from the page. But if an author doesn't handle it right, it falls flat or seems overdone. It is a challenge getting it "just right".”
“Crow paced back and forth, his form flickering like flame. â€œItâ€™s been a thousand years, Alister. I never intended for anyone to find it, so itâ€™s very well protected. One little misstep, and you and my line will be history.â€ â€œSince when are you so concerned about your line?â€ Han said. Crow stared at him for a long moment. â€œSince I found out I had one,”
“He grunted; she recognized it as relief that she wasn't going to nag him further about Tor the Just, who probably wasn't that boring if he could hold off the Notherners for nine days and melt a hole in the hills.”
“Alarmed successively by every fashionable medical terror of the day, she dosed her children with every specific which was publicly advertised or privately recommended...The consequence was, that the dangers, which had at first been imaginary, became real: these little victims of domestic medicine never had a day's health: they looked, and were, more dead than alive.”
“I don't have actor training myself.”
“Worry about being better; bigger will take care of itself. Think one customer at a time and take care of each one the best way you can.”

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