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Post by Gator on Oct 24, 2021 23:48:11 GMT -5
My kind of loyalty was loyalty to one's country, not to its institutions or its office-holders. The country is the real thing, the substantial thing, the eternal thing; it is the thing to watch over, and care for, and be loyal to; institutions are extraneous, they are its mere clothing, and clothing can wear out.
Mark Twain
(1835-1910)
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Post by Gator on Oct 25, 2021 23:28:55 GMT -5
Nothing in the world is harder than speaking the truth and nothing easier than flattery.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
(1821-1881)
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Post by Gator on Oct 26, 2021 23:54:36 GMT -5
There is no vice that doth so cover a man with shame, as to be found false and perfidious.
Francis Bacon
(1561-1626)
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Post by Gator on Oct 28, 2021 0:10:50 GMT -5
Men are all right for friends, but as soon as you marry them they turn into cranky old fathers, even the wild ones. They begin to tell you what's sensible and what's foolish, and want you to stick at home all the time. I prefer to be foolish when I feel like it, and be accountable to nobody.
Willa Cather
(1873-1947)
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Post by Gator on Oct 28, 2021 23:45:40 GMT -5
Ocean, n.: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man—who has no gills.
Ambrose Bierce
(1842-1914)
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Post by Gator on Oct 30, 2021 5:44:03 GMT -5
To learn is not to know; there are the learners and the learned. Memory makes the one, philosophy the other.
Alexandre Dumas
(1802-1870)
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Post by Gator on Oct 31, 2021 3:37:36 GMT -5
Better than man doth woman understand children, but man is more childish than woman.
Friedrich Nietzsche
(1844-1900)
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Post by Gator on Oct 31, 2021 23:01:02 GMT -5
Brains are at a discount in the married state. There is no demand for them, no appreciation even.
Jerome K. Jerome
(1859-1927)
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Post by Gator on Nov 2, 2021 0:13:15 GMT -5
It would be better to give up the notion of writing until you are better prepared ... You must not become a mere peddler of words. The thing to learn is to know what people are thinking about, not what they say.
Sherwood Anderson
(1876-1941)
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Post by Gator on Nov 3, 2021 2:36:39 GMT -5
Never are voices so beautiful as on a winter's evening, when dusk almost hides the body, and they seem to issue from nothingness with a note of intimacy seldom heard by day.
Virginia Woolf
(1882-1941)
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Post by Gator on Nov 3, 2021 23:10:03 GMT -5
So much does friendship triumph over misfortune, that sorrows and sufferings vanish at the meeting not only of real friends, but of the most distant acquaintances, and substitutes happiness in their room.
John Filson
(1747-1788)
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Post by Gator on Nov 6, 2021 8:32:50 GMT -5
Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.
Oscar Wilde
(1854-1900)
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Post by Gator on Nov 6, 2021 23:41:17 GMT -5
Why did the old Persians hold the sea holy? Why did the Greeks give it a separate deity ... ? Surely all this is not without meaning ... But that same image, we ourselves see in all rivers and oceans. It is the image of the ungraspable phantom of life; and this is the key to it all.
Herman Melville
(1819-1891)
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Post by Gator on Nov 8, 2021 7:26:53 GMT -5
By humbly and frankly acknowledging yourself to be in the wrong, there is no knowing, my son, what good you may do.
William Makepeace Thackeray
(1811-1863)
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Post by Gator on Nov 9, 2021 5:58:10 GMT -5
There's enough sorrow in the world, isn't there, without trying to invent it.
E. M. Forster
(1879-1970)
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