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A man must love a thing very much if he not only practices it without any hope of fame and money, but even practices it without any hope of doing it well.

— Oliver Herford Misattributed

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Oliver Herford very probably did not say this. Wikiquote lists it as misattributed.

Source: Gilbert Keith Chesterton, as per Mackay's The Harvest of a Quiet Eye, A Selection of Scientific Quotations (1977), p. 34.
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Children, behold the Chimpanzee;
He sits on the ancestral tree
From which we sprang in ages gone.
I'm glad we sprang: had we held on,
We might, for aught that I can say,
Be horrid Chimpanzees to-day.

The Chimpanzee; Reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922)

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Many are called but few get up.

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Why and Wherefore set out one day,
To hunt for a wild Negation.
They agreed to meet at a cool retreat
On the Point of Interrogation.

The bubble winked at me, and said,
"You'll miss me brother, when you're dead."

Here's to old Adam's crystal ale,
Clear sparkling and divine,
Fair H2O, long may you flow,
We drink your health (in wine).

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