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“It looked something like a pen wiper and something like a piece of hearth-rug. A second and keener inspection revealed it as a Pekinese puppy.”

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P. G. Wodehouse

P. G. Wodehouse was a British writer, humorist, and composer, renowned for his humorous stories and novels, especially those featuring the characters Jeeves and Bertie Wooster. His works have been translated into many languages and have had a lasting impact on generations of readers. more

Book:The Sandy Foundation Shaken; Or, Those ... Doctrines of One God Subsisting in Three Distinct and Separate Persons, the Impossibility of God's Pardoning Sinners Without a Plenary Satisfaction, the Justification of Impure Persons by an Imputative Righteousness, Refuted from the Authority of Scripture Testimonies and Right Reason, Etc

Source: The Sandy Foundation Shaken; Or, Those ... Doctrines of One God Subsisting in Three Distinct and Separate Persons, the Impossibility of God's Pardoning Sinners Without a Plenary Satisfaction, the Justification of Impure Persons by an Imputative Righteousness, Refuted from the Authority of Scripture Testimonies and Right Reason, Etc

“The greatest works are done by the ones. The hundreds do not often do much-the companies never; it is the units-the single individuals, that are the power and the might. Individual effort is, after all, the grand thing.”

Done Might Individual Effort Company Achievement Units Individual Effort

Author:Charles Spurgeon

“Haunted from my early youth by the transitoriness and pathos of life, I was aware that it is not enough to say "I am doing no harm," I ought to be testing myself daily, and asking myself what I am really achieving.”

Enough Achieve Youth Ought Achievement Asking Accomplish Harm Testing Pathos

Author:Margot Asquith

“Stressing the practice of living purposefully as essential to fully realized self-esteem is not equivalent to measuring an individual's worth by his or her external achievements. We admire achievements-in ourselves and others-and it is natural and appropriate for us to do so. But that is not the same thing as saying that our achievements are the measure or grounds of our self-esteem. The root of our self-esteem is not our achievements but those internally generated practices that, among other things, make it possible for us to achieve.”

Self Individual Natural Practice Achieve Self Esteem Essentials Achievement Roots Stress Admire Esteem Appropriate Measuring

Book:Nathaniel Brandens Self-Esteem Every Day: Reflections on Self-Esteem and Spirituality

Source: Nathaniel Brandens Self-Esteem Every Day: Reflections on Self-Esteem and Spirituality

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