William McFee Quotes

• A young man must let his ideas grow, not be continually rooting them up to see how they are getting on.

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• One must choose between Obscurity with Efficiency, and Fame with its inevitable collateral of Bluff.

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• It is so much easier to tell intimate things in the dark.

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• Fear, born of that stern matron, Responsibility.

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• Doing what’s right is no guarantee against misfortune.

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• If fate means you to lose, give him a good fight anyhow.

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• People don’t ever seem to realize that doing what’s right is no guarantee against misfortune.

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• Terrible and sublime thought, that every moment is supreme for some man and woman, every hour the apotheosis of some passion!

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• There is nothing like an odor to stir memories.

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William McFee (9)

Birth:	15th June, 1881
Death:	2nd July, 1966
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Marine Engineer, Mechanical Engineer, Writer

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