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Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.
Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.
Be right, and then be easy to live with, if possible, but in that order.
Be right, and then be easy to live with, if possible, but in that order.
The art of giving orders is not to try to rectify the minor blunders and not to be swayed by read more
The art of giving orders is not to try to rectify the minor blunders and not to be swayed by petty doubts.
Not a mouse
Shall disturb this hallowed house.
I am sent, with broom, before,
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Not a mouse
Shall disturb this hallowed house.
I am sent, with broom, before,
To sweep the dust behind the door.
Crude classifications and false generalizations are the curse of the organized life.
Crude classifications and false generalizations are the curse of the organized life.
Order is a lovely thing; on disarray it lays its wing, teaching simplicity to sing.
Order is a lovely thing; on disarray it lays its wing, teaching simplicity to sing.
It is folly to put the plough in front of the oxen.
[Fr., Folie est mettre la charrue devant read more
It is folly to put the plough in front of the oxen.
[Fr., Folie est mettre la charrue devant les boeufs.]
Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.
Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.
Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.
Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.
