FastSaying
When I was praised I lost my time, for instantly I turned around to look at the work I had thought slightly of, and that day I made nothing new.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Give a boy address and accomplishments and you give him the mastery of palaces and fortunes where he goes.
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