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 The world is like a board with holes in it, and the square men 
have got into the round read more 
 The world is like a board with holes in it, and the square men 
have got into the round holes, and the round into the square. 
The wind and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.
The wind and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.
 A dwarf is small even if he stands on a mountain; a colossus 
keeps his height, even if he read more 
 A dwarf is small even if he stands on a mountain; a colossus 
keeps his height, even if he stands in a well.
 [Lat., Parvus pumilio, licet in monte constiterit; colossus 
magnitudinem suam servabit, etiam si steterit in puteo.] 
 A Traveller at Sparta, standing long upon one leg, said to a 
Lacedaemonian, "I do not believe you can read more 
 A Traveller at Sparta, standing long upon one leg, said to a 
Lacedaemonian, "I do not believe you can do as much." "True," 
said he. "but every goose can." 
Knowing what you can not do is more important than knowing what you can do. In fact, that's good taste.
Knowing what you can not do is more important than knowing what you can do. In fact, that's good taste.
 To the very last, he [Napolean] had a kind of idea, that, namely, 
of "la carriere ouverte aux talents"--the read more 
 To the very last, he [Napolean] had a kind of idea, that, namely, 
of "la carriere ouverte aux talents"--the tools to him that can 
handle them. 
Any jackass can kick down a barn, but it takes a good carpenter to build one.
Any jackass can kick down a barn, but it takes a good carpenter to build one.
 Read my little fable:
 He that runs may read.
  Most can raise the flowers now,
  read more 
 Read my little fable:
 He that runs may read.
  Most can raise the flowers now,
   For all have got the seed. 
 One thing, however, I must premise, that without the assistance 
of natural capacity, rules and precepts are of no read more 
 One thing, however, I must premise, that without the assistance 
of natural capacity, rules and precepts are of no efficacy.
 [Lat., Illud tamen in primis testandum est, nihil praecepta atque 
artes valere nisi adjuvante natura.]