Joseph Jefferson quotes
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“Go out and do something for somebody. Go out and give something to somebody. It will take you away from yourself and make you happy.”
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“I have lost everything, and I am so poor now that I really cannot afford to let anything worry me.”
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“We are but tenants and shortly the great landlord will give us notice that our lease has expired.”
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“And yet we are but tenants. Let us assure ourselves of this, and then it will not be so hard to make room for the new administration; for shortly the great Landlord will give us notice that our lease has expired.”
-- Joseph JeffersonSource : ""Rip Van Winkle": The Autobiography of Joseph Jefferson".
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“So, to praise others for their virtues - Can but encourage one's own efforts”
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“Television gives us the gift to see ourselves as we'd like to be seen.”
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“Forget yourself and live for others, for It is more blessed to give than to receive.”
Source : Thomas Chalmers (1848). “Select Works of Thomas Chalmers ...: Comprising His Miscellanies; Lectures on Romans; Astronomical, Commercial and Congregational Discourses”, p.153
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Source : "The Trouble Makers: Dissent over Foreign Policy, 1792-1939". Book by A. J. P. Taylor, "The Radical Tradition: Fox, Paine, and Cobbett", p. 14, 1957.
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“I want the love that cannot help but love; Loving, like God, for very sake of love.”
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“I'm not saying all publishers have to be literary, but some interest in books would help.”
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