Quote #17

I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.

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  1. I believe that thrift is essential to well-ordered living.
  2. I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost ever…
  3. I believe in the supreme worth of the individual and in his right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
  4. I have ways of making money that you know nothing of.
  5. I believe in the dignity of labor, whether with head or hand; that the world owes no man a living but that it owes every man an opportunity…
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  8. I would rather earn 1% off a 100 people's efforts than 100% of my own efforts.

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