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Post by Gator on Jan 20, 2017 9:46:13 GMT -5
A married man forms married habits and becomes dependent on marriage just as a sailor becomes dependent on the sea.
George Bernard Shaw
(1856-1950)
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Post by Gator on Jan 21, 2017 8:06:10 GMT -5
One of our first amusements as children (if we have any imagination at all) is to get out of our own characters, and to try the characters of other personages as a change—to be fairies, to be queens, to be anything, in short, but what we really are.
Wilkie Collins
(1824-1889)
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Post by Gator on Jan 22, 2017 0:56:05 GMT -5
The philosopher is like a mountaineer who has with difficulty climbed a mountain for the sake of the sunrise, and arriving at the top finds only fog; whereupon he wanders down again.
W. Somerset Maugham
(1874-1965)
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Post by Gator on Jan 23, 2017 11:00:38 GMT -5
Men regard it as their right to return evil for evil—and, if they cannot, feel they have lost their liberty.
Aristotle
(384 BC-322 BC)
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Post by Gator on Jan 24, 2017 10:40:15 GMT -5
No man can ever feel his own identity aright except his eyes be closed; as if darkness were indeed the proper element of our essences, though light be more congenial to our clayey part.
Herman Melville
(1819-1891)
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Post by Gator on Jan 25, 2017 11:29:03 GMT -5
The world would do well to reflect, that injustice is in itself, to every generous and properly constituted mind, an injury, of all others the most insufferable, the most torturing, and the most hard to bear.
Charles Dickens
(1812-1870)
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Post by Gator on Jan 26, 2017 12:10:09 GMT -5
What have wealth or grandeur to do with happiness?
Jane Austen
(1775-1817)
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Post by Gator on Jan 27, 2017 12:42:41 GMT -5
Art is the most intense mode of Individualism that the world has known.
Oscar Wilde
(1854-1900)
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Post by Gator on Jan 28, 2017 0:42:02 GMT -5
To know, to esteem, to love, and then to part, Makes up life's tale to many a feeling heart!
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
(1772-1834)
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Post by Gator on Jan 29, 2017 13:07:44 GMT -5
There is so much in the world for us all if we only have the eyes to see it, and the heart to love it, and the hand to gather it to ourselves.
Lucy Maud Montgomery
(1874-1942)
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Post by Gator on Jan 30, 2017 0:07:17 GMT -5
If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scoundrel.
Jonathan Swift
(1667-1745)
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Post by Gator on Jan 31, 2017 11:47:42 GMT -5
They say that none of us exists, except in the imagination of his fellows, other than as an intangible, invisible mentality.
Edgar Rice Burroughs
(1875-1950)
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Post by Gator on Feb 1, 2017 3:12:05 GMT -5
Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
Oscar Wilde
(1854-1900)
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Post by Gator on Feb 2, 2017 12:16:13 GMT -5
I am almost frighted out of my seven senses.
Miguel de Cervantes
(1547-1616)
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Post by Gator on Feb 3, 2017 1:26:23 GMT -5
Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.
John F. Kennedy
(1917-1963)
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