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    I will not choose what many men desire,
    Because I will not jump with common spirits
    And rank me with the barbarous multitudes.

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Guess, if you can, and choose, if you dare.
[Lat., Devine, si tu peux, et choisis, si tu l'oses.]

Guess, if you can, and choose, if you dare.
[Lat., Devine, si tu peux, et choisis, si tu l'oses.]

by Pierre Corneille Found in: Choice Quotes,
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Which of them shall I take?
Both? One? Or neither? Neither can be enjoyed,
If both remain read more

Which of them shall I take?
Both? One? Or neither? Neither can be enjoyed,
If both remain alive. To take the widow
Exasperates, makes mad her sister Goneril;
And hardly shall I carry out my side,
Her husband being alive.

by William Shakespeare Found in: Choice Quotes,
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Choose a job you love and you will never have to work a day in your life.

Choose a job you love and you will never have to work a day in your life.

by Confucius Found in: Choice Quotes,
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Of harmes two the less is for to chose.

Of harmes two the less is for to chose.

by Geoffrey Chaucer Found in: Choice Quotes,
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I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work. -Thomas Alva Edison.

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work. -Thomas Alva Edison.

by Thomas Alva Edison Found in: Choice Quotes,
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If you are going to walk on thin ice, you might as well dance! -Anonymous.

If you are going to walk on thin ice, you might as well dance! -Anonymous.

by Anonymous Found in: Choice Quotes,
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Better to sink beneath the shock
Than moulder piecemeal on the rock!

Better to sink beneath the shock
Than moulder piecemeal on the rock!

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Rather than be less
Car'd not to be at all.

Rather than be less
Car'd not to be at all.

by John Milton Found in: Choice Quotes,
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Preferment goes by letter and affection,
And not by old gradation, where each second
Stood heir to read more

Preferment goes by letter and affection,
And not by old gradation, where each second
Stood heir to th's first.

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