Quotable Quotes by Editors Of Reader's Digest Page A

deliberately been left open.
    â€” A RNOLD H . G LASOW
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    Temptations, unlike opportunities, will always give you many second chances.
    â€” O . A . B ATTISTA
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    There is no original sin; it has all been done before.
    â€” L OUIS D UDEK
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    Be cautious. Opportunity does the knocking for temptation too.
    â€” A L B ATT
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    Being virtuous is no feat once temptation ceases.
    â€” D ANISH PROVERB
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    Nothing makes it easier to resist temptation than a proper bringing-up, a sound set of values—and witnesses.
    â€” F RANKLIN P . J ONES
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    In this era of rapid change, one thing remains constant: it’s easier to pray for forgiveness than to resist temptation.
    â€” S OL K ENDON
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    About the only time losing is more fun than winning is when you’re fighting temptation.
    â€” T OM W ILSON
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    Come good times or bad, there is always a market for things nobody needs.
    â€” K IN H UBBARD
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    When there’s a lot of it around, you never want it very much.
    â€”P EG B RACKEN
    The I Hate to Cook Almanack
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    L AZINESS HAS MANY DISGUISES  . . .
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    Laziness has many disguises. Soon “winter doldrums” will become “spring fever.”
    â€” B ERN W ILLIAMS
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National Enquirer
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    He who is carried on another’s back does not appreciate how far off the town is.
    â€” A FRICAN PROVERB
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    If you get a reputation as an early riser, you can sleep till noon.
    â€” I RISH PROVERB
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    Cultivate the habit of early rising. It is unwise to keep the head long on a level with the feet.
    â€” H ENRY D AVID T HOREAU
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    Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.
    â€” A NNE F RANK
    The Diary of a Young Girl
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    The safest road to hell is the gradual one—the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.
    â€” C . S . L EWIS
    The Screwtape Letters
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    Laziness is nothing more than resting before you get tired.
    â€” J ULES R ENARD
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    A lot of what passes for depression these days is nothing more than a body saying that it needs work.
    â€” G EOFFREY N ORMAN
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    Beware of the man who won’t be bothered with details.
    â€” W ILLIAM F EATHER S R.
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    It is better to have loafed and lost than never to have loafed at all.
    â€” J AMES T HURBER
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    The day will happen whether or not you get up.
    â€” J OHN C IARDI
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    I’m lazy. But it’s the lazy people who invented the wheel and the bicycle because they didn’t like walking or carrying things.
    â€” L ECH W ALESA
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    About the only thing that comes to us without effort is old age.
    â€” G LORIA P ITZER
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    I can do only one thing at a time, but I can avoid doing many things simultaneously.
    â€” A SHLEIGH B RILLIANT
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    What a fearful object a long-neglected duty gets to be!
    â€” C HAUNCEY W RIGHT
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    A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.
    â€” W ILLIAM C OWPER
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    Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believing as we already do.
    â€” J AMES H ARVEY R OBINSON
    The Mind in the Making
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    No one ever excused his way to success.
    â€”D AVE D EL D OTTO
    How to Make Nothing But Money
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    Excuses are the nails used to build a house of failure.
    â€”D ON W ILDER AND B ILL R ECHIN
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    Whoever wants to be a judge of human nature should study people’s excuses.
    â€” F RIEDRICH H EBBEL
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    Don’t tell me how hard you work. Tell me how much you get done.
    â€” J AMES L ING
    in
Newsweek
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    To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.
    â€” R OBERT L OUIS S TEVENSON
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    There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
    â€” B EVERLY S ILLS
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    The older generation thought nothing of getting up at five every morning—and the younger generation doesn’t think much of it either.
    â€” J OHN J . W ELSH
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