William Cornelius Van Horne quotes
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“Prosperity too often has the same effect on a Christian that a calm at sea has on a Dutch mariner; who frequently, it is said, in those circumstances, ties up the rudder, gets drunk, and goes to sleep.”
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“There are more speculators about New Westminster and Victoria than there were in Winnipeg during the boom and they are a much sharper lot. Nearly every person is more or less interested and you will have to be on your guard against all of them.”
-- William Cornelius Van HorneSource : Canadian Pacific Railway Company, William Cornelius Van Horne “Van Horne Letter Book: Dec. 3rd, 1884-Feb. 3rd, 1885”
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“If we can't export the scenery, we'll import the tourists.”
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“Cheerfulness is the daughter of employment; and I have known a man come home in high spirits from a funeral, merely because he has had the management of it.”
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Source : Abraham Coles (1866). “The Microcosm: A Poem, Read Before the Medical Society of New Jersey at Its Centenary Anniversary: with the Address Delivered as President, Jan. 24, 1866”, p.48
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Source : Abram Joseph Ryan, John Moran (1896). “Poems ...”
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“I eat, sleep, and drink my character. It is my fantasy to go to another planet.”
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Source : Source: www.djbooth.net
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