A professional is a person who can do his best at a time when he doesn't particularly feel like it.
¶ (Attributed)
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Alistair Cooke (b. 1908) Anglo-American essayist and journalist
Man has an incurable habit of not fulfilling the prophecies of his fellow men.
¶ Talk About America, ch. 8 (1968)
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