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“Check and restrain anger. Never make any determination until you find it has entirely subsided.”

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Cuthbert Collingwood, 1st Baron Collingwood

Cuthbert Collingwood, 1st Baron Collingwood, was a distinguished British naval officer. He held significant positions in the British Navy and performed admirably during the Napoleonic Wars. His life and achievements require further research. more

“It has long been a source of wonder to me why the leading criminological writers--men like Edmund Lester Pearson, H. B. Irving, Filson Young, Canon Brookes, William Bolitho, and Harold Eaton--have not devoted more space to the Greene tragedy; for here, surely, is one of the outstanding murder mysteries of modern times--a case practically unique in the annals of latter-day crime.”

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Book:The Greene Murder Case

Source: The Greene Murder Case

“My last page is always latent in my first; but the intervening windings of the way become clear only as I write.”

Way Writing Firsts Lasts Clear Pages Latent Intervening

Book:A Backward Glance

Source: A Backward Glance

“Drive away what springs from nature; it returns at a gallop.”

Nature Return Spring

Author:Philippe Nericault Destouches

“We are sure to get the better of fortune if we do but grapple with her.”

Ifs Fortune

Author:Seneca the Younger

“True friends are the whole world to one another; and he that is a friend to himself is also a friend to mankind. Even in my studies the greatest delight I take is of imparting it to others; for there is no relish to me in the possessing of anything without a partner.”

World Whole Study Mankind Friends Delight Partners Whole World True Friend Possessing Relish

Author:Seneca the Younger

“He that makes himself famous by his eloquence, justice or arms illustrates his extraction, let it be never so mean; and gives inestimable reputation to his parents. We should never have heard of Sophroniscus, but for his son, Socrates; nor of Ariosto and Gryllus, if it had not been for Xenophon and Plato.”

Ifs Giving Should Mean Parent Justice Heard Greatness Son Arms Reputation Plato Eloquence Extraction

Author:Seneca the Younger

“The greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution.”

Men Greatness Resolution Invincible Greatest Man

Author:Seneca the Younger

“For the last 20 years of my life, I've had the mantra to do amazing parts with amazing people in amazing projects, so I'm attracted to good story, writing and character and good people. That's what I'm always searching for and I don't think that's ever going to change.”

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Author:John Hawkes

“A large library is apt to distract rather than to instruct the learner; it is much better to be confined to a few authors than to wander at random over many.”

Library Wander Confined Learners

Author:Seneca the Younger

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