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Pigmies placed on the shoulders of giants see more than the giants themselves.

Read my little fable: He that runs may read. Most can raise the flowers now, For all have got the seed.

The wicked are always surprised to find ability in the good.

They are able because they think they are able.

Men take only their needs into consideration, never their abilities.

A man dies still if he has done nothing, as one who has done much.

The carpenter is not the best who makes more chips than all the rest.

If you can't learn to do it well, learn to enjoy doing it badly.

People are always ready to admit a man's ability after he gets there.

Ability is the art of getting credit for all the home runs somebody else hits.

The winds and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.

Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.

If they try to rush me, I always say, I've only got one other speed and it's slower.

It is all one to me if a man comes from Sing Sing or Harvard. We hire a man, not his history.

From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.

When people find a man of the most distinguished abilities as a writer their inferior while he is with them, it must be highly gratifying to them.

'Tis skill not strength that governs a ship.

There is great ability in knowing how to conceal one's ability.

Ability hits the mark where presumption overshoots and diffidence falls short.

Ability is of little account without opportunity.