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“I have three precious things which I hold fast and prize. The first is gentleness; the second is frugality; the third is humility, which keeps me from putting myself before others. Be gentle and you can be bold; be frugal and you can be liberal; avoid putting yourself before others and you can become a leader among men.”
Lao Tzu
“A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it runs the other way.”
Honore de Balzac
“I would rather be first in a small village in Gaul than second in command in Rome”
Julius Caesar
“We must as second best...take the least of the evils.”
Aristotle
“My brain? That´s my second favourite organ.”
Woody Allen
“God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say "thank you?"”
William Arthur Ward
“We Americans live in a nation where the medical-care system is second to none in the world, unless you count maybe 25 or 30 little scuzzball countries like Scotland that we could vaporize in seconds if we felt like it”
Dave Barry
“There are three secrets to managing. The first secret is have patience. The second is be patient. And the third most important secret is patience.”
Chuck Tanner
“What is second sight? A gift? A training? Or is it simply that suddenly within the brain a thousand impressions, ideas, sights, sounds, and smells coincide to provide an impression of what is to be? The mind gathers its grain in all fields, storing i”
Louis L'Amour
“You can't climb to the second floor without a ladder. Try for a goal that's reasonable, then gradually raise it.”
Emil Zatopek