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The three habits that lead to success are: Patience, Application, and Vision.

Take care: The person who will tell others' faults to you - will tell yours to others.

It is always better to be underestimated.

There are three things that are better than riches: Health, Freedom, and Honor.

Think swiftly, speak softly, act wisely.

"The world is neither Scottish, English, nor Irish, neither French, Dutch, nor Chinese, but human, and each nation is only the partial development of a universal humanity." - James Grant on founding the National Association for the Vindication of Scottish Rights, 1862

All from: The Book of Celtic Wisdom

Your highness, this is a battle I do not think we can win.

“Your highness, this is a battle I do not think we can win.” - Captain Panaka, Star Wars I: The Phantom Menace

 

Padawan Learner asked me this morning, referring to the Charlie Daniels Band classic, “Wouldn’t it be that the devil went up to Georgia?”  
I countered with, “Not if the devil lived north of Georgia.”  
“Ah,” he replied. “Canadian. The devil went down to Georgia, eh?”

And this is where I now apologize to any and all Canadian readers…

May the Force be with us all, Share!

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