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What would you call the highest happiness? Wratislaw was ask. The sense of competence, was the answer, given without hesitation.


John Buchan

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JOHN CLEESE Some people feel fulfillment from a bitter end - it gives them some sort of sense of reality. But, w...
JOHN BOYEGA I've never eaten just a few bites of things I liked in my life.
JOHN MADDEN The main ingredient of stardom is the rest of the team.
JOHN WOODEN A coach is someone who can give correction without causing resentment.
JOHN WOODEN Just try to be the best you can be; never cease trying to be the best you can be. That's in your...
JOHN WOODEN If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?
JOHN WOODEN Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.
JOHN WOODEN Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing.
JOHN LOCKE It is of great use to the sailor to know the length of his line, though he cannot with it fathom all...
JOHN LOCKE It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of the tr...
JOHN LOCKE