Life is divided into three terms - that which was, which is, and which will be. Let us learn from the past to profit by the present, and from the present, to live better in the future.
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William Wordsworth Quote
“In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.”
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