“Prosperity doth best discover vice, but Adversity doth best discover virtue.” Francis Bacon
Quotations
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- Q is the only letter that does not appear in any U.S. state name.
- 6455 = (64 – 5) × 5
- North Dakota’s record high temperature (121°F) is higher than Florida’s (109°F).
- UNNOTICEABLY contains the vowels A, E, I, O, and U in reverse order.
- “An odd thought strikes me: We shall receive no letters in the grave.” — Samuel Johnson
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“Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn’t the work he is supposed to be doing at that moment.” — Robert Benchley
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“Nothing valuable can be lost by taking time.” — Abraham Lincoln
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“Medicine makes people ill, mathematics makes them sad, and theology makes them sinful.” — Martin Luther
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“Honesty is praised and starves.” — Juvenal
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“Contentment is natural wealth; luxury is artificial poverty.” — Socrates
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“Where there’s a will there’s a won’t.” — Ambrose Bierce
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“The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.” — Tacitus
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“For God’s sake, go down to reception and get rid of a lunatic who’s down there. He says he’s got a machine for seeing by wireless! Watch him — he may have a razor on him.”
— Editor of the London Daily Express, refusing to see John Logie Baird, inventor of television, 1925