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Post by Gator on Nov 10, 2021 6:04:36 GMT -5
A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.
George Bernard Shaw
(1856-1950)
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Post by Gator on Nov 11, 2021 11:27:39 GMT -5
Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.
William Makepeace Thackeray
(1811-1863)
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Post by Gator on Nov 12, 2021 9:56:17 GMT -5
Who has not remarked the readiness with which the closest of friends and honestest of men suspect and accuse each other of cheating when they fall out on money matters?
William Makepeace Thackeray
(1811-1863)
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Post by Gator on Nov 13, 2021 8:44:36 GMT -5
It is as natural to die, as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful, as the other.
Francis Bacon
(1561-1626)
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Post by Gator on Nov 14, 2021 10:57:15 GMT -5
I pity from the bottom of my heart any nation or body of people that is so unfortunate as to get entangled in the net of slavery.
Booker T. Washington
(1856-1915)
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Post by Gator on Nov 15, 2021 8:02:02 GMT -5
Never ... be mean in anything; never be false; never be cruel. Avoid those three vices ... and I can always be hopeful of you.
Charles Dickens
(1812-1870)
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Post by Gator on Nov 16, 2021 0:40:21 GMT -5
It is of great importance in a republic not only to guard the society against the oppression of its rulers, but to guard one part of the society against the injustice of the other part ... If a majority be united by a common interest, the rights of the minority will be insecure.
James Madison
(1751-1836)
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Post by Gator on Nov 17, 2021 10:53:22 GMT -5
A good man is a man who is good to us, and a bad man is a man who doesn't do what we want him to.
Jerome K. Jerome
(1859-1927)
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Post by Gator on Nov 19, 2021 9:55:33 GMT -5
At the gates of the forest, the surprised man of the world is forced to leave his city estimates of great and small, wise and foolish ... Here is sanctity which shames our religions, and reality which discredits our heroes.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
(1803-1882)
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Post by Gator on Nov 20, 2021 11:26:21 GMT -5
Before I do anything I feel that I have choice, and that influences what I do; but afterwards, when the thing is done, I believe that it was inevitable from all eternity.
W. Somerset Maugham
(1874-1965)
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Post by Gator on Nov 21, 2021 9:09:14 GMT -5
She had resolved never again to belong to another than herself.
Kate Chopin
(1851-1904)
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Post by Gator on Nov 22, 2021 11:40:25 GMT -5
Long brooding over those lost pleasures exaggerates their charm and sweetness.
William Makepeace Thackeray
(1811-1863)
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Post by Gator on Nov 23, 2021 10:51:57 GMT -5
No man knocks himself down; if his destiny knocks him down, his destiny must pick him up again.
Charles Dickens
(1812-1870)
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Post by Gator on Nov 24, 2021 0:07:15 GMT -5
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.
Henry David Thoreau
(1817-1862)
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Post by Gator on Nov 25, 2021 10:01:27 GMT -5
There are two things that men should never weary of, goodness and humility; we get none too much of them in this rough world among cold, proud people.
Robert Louis Stevenson
(1850-1894)
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