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If at first you don't succeed, find out if the loser gets anything.

~William Lyon Phelps

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Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good plays, good company, good conversation - what are they? They are the happiest people in the world.

~William Lyon Phelps

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A well-ordered life is like climbing a tower; the view halfway up is better than the view from the base, and it steadily becomes finer as the horizon expands.

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God speaks to me not through the thunder and the earthquake, nor through the ocean and the stars, but through the Son of Man, and speaks in a language adapted to my imperfect sight and hearing.

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The happiest people in this world are those who have the most interesting thoughts.

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A student never forgets an encouraging private word, when it is given with sincere respect and admiration.

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Nature makes boys and girls lovely to look upon so they can be tolerated until they acquire some sense.

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If happiness truly consisted in physical ease and freedom from care, then the happiest individual would not be either a man or a woman; it would be, I think, an American cow.

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I divide all readers into two classes: those who read to remember and those who read to forget.

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The final test of a gentleman is his respect for those who can be of no possible service to him.

~William Lyon Phelps

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Educator

Born: January 2nd, 1865

Died: August 21st, 1943

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