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No power on this earth can keep you down, if you will to rise.

Smile while you can, young man, for some day you may marry your employer’s daughter, and become a millionaire; then you can’t smile.

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The Devil laughed over-time when he inspired the alarm clock.

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There once was a man who found a fat white grub eating his cucumber vines; he did not swear at it, but took it out to sea and caught a shad with it that supplied food for himself and family of nine children for a whole day.  That is initiative.