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-- Benjamin Franklin "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
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-- Mark Twain There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
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-- Henry James In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
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-- General George Patton "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
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-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
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While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
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-- George Bernard Shaw The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
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Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Epperson's law:
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