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• Young men are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel
  and fitter for new projects than for settled business....
• Young men are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel
  and fitter for new projects than for settled business....
• That is a true proverb which is wont to be commonly quoted, that "all had rather it were well for themselves than for another.
  -- Terence (185-159 BC) -- Act ii, Sc. 5, 15, (426.)...
• The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists i
  and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character....
• Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time
  which every day produces, and which most men throw away, but which nevertheless will make at the end of it no small deduction for the life of man....
• I hold every man a debtor to his profession; from the which as men of course do seek to receive countenance and profi
  o ought they of duty to endeavour themselves by way of amends to be a help and ornament thereunto....
• None of our men are "experts." We have most unfortunately found it necessary to get rid of a man as soon as he thinks himself an expert -- because no one ever considers himself expert if he really knows his job.
  A man who knows a job sees so much more to be done than he has done, that he is always pressing forward and never gives up an instant of thought to how good and how efficient he is....
• None of our men are "experts." We have most unfortunately found it necessary to get rid of a man as soon as he thinks himself an expert -- because no one ever considers himself expert if he really knows his job.
  A man who knows a job sees so much more to be done than he has done, that he is always pressing forward and never gives up an instant of thought to how good and how efficient he is....
• One often hears about the need for individuals to take responsibility for their own lives.
  However, the conditions in which people find themselves have been largely established long before people become aware of them....