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The telephone will be used to inform people that a telegram has been sent.
Alexander Graham Bell
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Washington is no place in which to carry out inventions
Alexander Graham Bell
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The inventor is a man who looks around upon the world and is not contented with things as they are. He wants to improve whatever he sees, he wants to benefit the world he is haunted by an idea. The spirit of invention possesses him, seeking materialization.
Alexander Graham Bell
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When one door closes, another one opens.
Alexander Graham Bell
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What this power is, I cannot say... All I know is that it exists.
Alexander Graham Bell
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The achievement of one goal should be the starting point of another.
Alexander Graham Bell
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The only difference between success and failure is the ability to take action.
Alexander Graham Bell
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Neither the Army nor the Navy is of any protection, or very little protection, against aerial raids.
Alexander Graham Bell
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Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus.
Alexander Graham Bell
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Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.
Alexander Graham Bell
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When one door closes, another opens but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.
Alexander Graham Bell
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There are times when sense may be unseasonable, as well as truth.
William Congreve
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If happiness in self-content is placed, The wise are wretched, and fools only blessed.
William Congreve
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O ay, letters - I had letters - I am persecuted with letters - I hate letters - nobody knows how to write letters and yet one has 'em, one does not know why - they serve one to pin up one's hair.
William Congreve
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Who pleases one against his will.
William Congreve
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Men are apt to offend ('tis true) where they find most goodness to forgive.
William Congreve
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Turn pimp, flatterer, quack, lawyer, parson, be chaplain to an atheist, or stallion to an old woman, anything but a poet for a poet is worse, more servile, timorous and fawning than any I have named.
William Congreve
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How hard a thing 'twould be to please you all.
William Congreve
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It is the business of a comic poet to paint the vices and follies of human kind.
William Congreve
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To converse with Scandal is to play at Losing Loadum, you must lose a good name to him, before you can win it for yourself.
William Congreve
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Let us be very strange and well-bred:Let us be as strange as if we had been married a great whileAnd as well-bred as if we were not married at all.
William Congreve
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I know that’s a secret, for it’s whispered everywhere.
William Congreve
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Love's but the frailty of the mind, When 'tis not with ambition joined A sickly flame, which if not fed expires And feeding, wastes in self-consuming fires.
William Congreve
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I came up stairs into the world, for I was born in a cellar.
William Congreve
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