Quote #9

Every now and then they were awarded prizes - Self-Help by Smiles, and other books suitable for perusal by persons suffering from almost complete obliteration of the mental faculties.

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  1. A man who devotes himself to this pursuit, body and soul, can scarcely fail to become rich. Very little brains will do:
  2. It's a brutal book; it ought to be burnt by the common hangman. Smiles was the arch-Philistine, and his book the apotheosis of respectabili…
  3. We often discover what WILL do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.
  4. We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do by finding out what will not do; and probably he w…
  5. 'Heaven helps those who help themselves' is a well tired maxim, embodying in a small compass the results of a vast human experience. The sp…
  6. No laws, however stringent, can make the idle industrious, the thriftless provident, or the drunken sober.
  7. Sow a thought, and you reap an act; Sow an act, and you reap a habit; Sow a habit, and you reap a character; Sow a character, and you reap …
  8. A place for everything, and everything in its place.

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