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Everybody knows how to utter a complaint, but few can express a graceful compliment.

William Feather

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William Feather
Age: 91 †
Born: 1889
Born: August 25
Died: 1981
Died: January 7
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Jamestown
New York
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Complaints
Compliment
Express
Everybody
Complaint
Graceful

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Know and believe in yourself and what others think won't disturb you.
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An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't. It's knowing where to go to find out what you need to know, and it's knowing how to use the information once you get it.
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The hardest job of all is trying to look busy when you're not.
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Indifference and inaction must always pay a penalty.
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Setting a good example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age.
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Only the man who can impose discipline on himself is fit to discipline others or can impose discipline on others.
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The best sermon is preached by the minister who has a sermon to preach and not by the man who has to preach a sermon.
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Improvement of one's economic position is helped more by cool persistence than by hot enthusiasm.
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The way to get ahead is to start now.
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The sweaty players in the game of life always have more fun than the supercilious spectators.
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In many lines of wok, it isn't how much you do that counts, but how much you do well and how often you decide right.
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Not a tenth of us who are in business are doing as well as we could if we merely followed the principles that were known to our grandfathers.
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