The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming … - G. M. Trevelyan

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She doesn't understand what she's asking, Jean-Claude said. No, but she asks, and if we do not do it, we will always wonder. I would rather thy and fail than regret having never tried at all.

G. M. Trevelyan

The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.

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We are literally children of the earth, and removed from her our spirits wither or run to various forms of insanity. Unless we can refresh ourselves at least by intermittent contact with nature, we grow awry.

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Socrates gave no diplomas or degrees, and would have subjected any disciple who demanded one to a disconcerting catechism on the nature of true knowledge.

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If the French noblesse had been capable of playing cricket with their peasants, their chateaux would never have been burnt.

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I never knew a man go for an honest day's walk for whatever distance, great or small, and not have his reward in the repossession of his soul.

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I have two doctors, my left leg and my right. When body and mind are out of gear (and those twin parts of me live at such close quarters that the one always catches melancholy from the other) I know that I shall have only to call in my doctors and I shall be well again.

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