Douglas Fairbanks

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Lived: 1883 – 1939
Era: Early 20th century
Place: Denver, Colorado, USA

Swashbuckling silent-film star and United Artists co-founder. His upbeat self-help books, Laugh and Live (1917) and Making Life Worth While (1918), were published under his name and are reported to have been ghost-written by his secretary Kenneth Davenport.

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Start off the morning with a laugh and you needn’t worry about the rest of the day.
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If we never learn to laugh we will never learn to live.
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For every seed of human kindness he plants, a flower blooms in the garden of his own heart.
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Courage can be built up just the same as any other soul quality.
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The problem of life is to fill our days with sunshine.
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There is unbounded happiness in the pursuit of knowledge; a wonderful satisfaction in building up one’s treasure house of information.
— Douglas FairbanksFamous Actors