You will find the Americans much as the Greeks found the Romans: great big vulgar bustling people more vigorous than we are and also more idle with more unspoiled virtues but also more corrupt.

Harold Macmillan
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  1. Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best. Genius must always have lapses proportionate to its triumphs.
  2. I utilise all my spare moments. I've read twenty-seven of the Hundred Best Books. I collect ferns.
  3. No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt.
  4. You cannot make a man by standing a sheep on its hind legs. But by standing a flock of sheep in that position you can make a crowd of men.
  5. There is much to be said for failure. It is more interesting than success.
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