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The rare individual who has learned to govern himself is too fed up with the labor of it to want to govern anybody else.

— Henry S. Haskins Meditations in Wall Street (1940)

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Imitation can acquire pretty much everything but the power which created the thing imitated.

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Compliments have lost their lure by the time a man does not have to fish for them.

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When a man’s success becomes commonplace to him, it is his success no longer.

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The man who has a dogmatic creed has more time left for his business.

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The man who is too old to learn was probably always too old to learn.

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