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A professional is a person who can do his best at a time when he doesn’t particularly feel like it.

Alistair Cooke (b. 1908) Anglo-American essayist and journalist
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Man has an incurable habit of not fulfilling the prophecies of his fellow men.

Alistair Cooke (b. 1908) Anglo-American essayist and journalist
Talk About America, ch. 8 (1968)

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