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Quotes by Channing Pollock

“The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.”

“Home is the most popular, and will be the most enduring of all earthly establishments”

“Calm self-confidence is as far from conceit as the desire to earn a decent living is remote from greed”

“A critic is a legless man who teaches running”

“No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.”

“No matter how small and unimportant what we are doing may seem, if we do it well, it may soon become the step that will lead us to better things.”

“Happiness: a way station between too little and too much.”

“The important thing is to use today wisely and well, and face tomorrow eagerly and cheerfully and with the certainty that we shall be equal to what it brings.”

“Two things are as big as the man who possesses them - neither bigger nor smaller. One is a minute, the other a dollar.”

“Each generation produces its squad of moderns with peashooters to attack Gibraltar”

“No matter under what circumstances you leave it, home does not cease to be home. No matter how you lived there-well or poorly.”

“Home is a name, a word, it is a strong one; stronger than magician ever spoke, or spirit ever answered to, in the strongest conjuration.”

“Home is a place you grow up wanting to leave, and grow old wanting to get back to”

“Theres nothing half so pleasant as coming home again.”

“Home is not where you live, but where they understand you”

“Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.”

A critic is a legless man who teaches other people to run

A critic is a legless man who teaches running.

Happiness is a way station between too much and too little.

Happiness is a way station between too little and too much.