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• The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work.
  The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%....
• His elevator doesn't go to the top floor.
• Smoke doesn't make it to the top of his chimney.
• For the egoist has so far the advantage over every other species of devotee, that his idol is ever present.
  -- Catherine Gore...
• So scented the grim Feature, and upturn'd His nostril wide into the murky air, Sagacious of his quarry from so far.
  -- John Milton (1608-1674) -- Paradise Lost, Book x, Line 279...
• Man is by nature metaphysical and proud. He has gone so far as to think that the idealistic creations of his mind, which correspond to his feelings, also represent reality.
  -- Claude Bernard...
• A husband is a lover who pushed his luck too far.
• Well, there was this tiger, who woke up one morning, and just felt great (yes, just like Tony the Tige
  GREAAAAAAT). Anyway, he just felt so good, he went out and cornered a small monkey and roared at him...
• Well, there was this tiger, who woke up one morning, and just felt great (yes, just like Tony the Tige
  GREAAAAAAT). Anyway, he just felt so good, he went out and cornered a small monkey and roared at him...