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“Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)
“...whoever wishes to become great among you must be your servant...”
—Bible: New Testament, Mark 10:43.
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“The man with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)
“Extemporaneous speaking should be practised and cultivated. It is the lawyer’s avenue to the public.... And yet there is not a more fatal error to young lawyers than relying too much on speechmaking. If any one, upon his rare powers of speaking, shall claim an exemption from the drudgery of the law, his case is a failure in advance.”
—Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)
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