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A good time is seldom had by all.

— William Feather Featherisms (2008)

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I like business because it is the essence of life. Dreams are good, poetical fancies are good, but bread must be baked today, trains must move today, bills must be collected today, payrolls met today.

Most men become successful and famous, not through ambition, but through ability and character.

I like business because it rewards deeds and not words.

I like business because it is competitive.

The kindness lavished on dogs, if evenly distributed, would establish peace on earth.

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A generation which ignores history has no past —and no future.

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You can never plan the future by the past.

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Nothing is there to come, and nothing past,
But an eternal now does always last.

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