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Quote from “Poor Richard's Almanack”

Well done is better than well said.

Benjamin Franklin

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A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.

George Bernard Shaw

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Quote from “Personal Letter (1872)”

A word is dead when it is said, some say. I say it just begins to live that day.

Emily Dickinson

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You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.

Benjamin Franklin

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Quote from “Advice To A Girl” familyfriendpoems.com/poem/125047

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Sara Teasdale

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Quote from “Letter To Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1870)”

If I read a book [and] it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry. If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry. These are the only ways I know it. Is there any other way?

Emily Dickinson