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Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there.
Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there.
 Josh Billings

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Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.
Never complain and never explain.
A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.
 George S. Patton
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
 Robert Schuller
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
 Harriet Beecher Stowe

Quotes from the same author

Wisdom has never made a bigot, but learning has.
 Josh Billings
I don't care how much a man talks, if he only says it in a few words.
 Josh Billings
I called my cat William because no shorter name fits the dignity of his character. Poor old man, he has fits now, so I call him Fitz-William.
 Josh Billings
Be kind to your mother-in-law, but pay for her board at some good hotel.
 Josh Billings
Poverty is the step-mother of genius.
 Josh Billings