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Post by gator on Nov 12, 2021 15:02:32 GMT
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 13:50:03 GMT
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 16:03:35 GMT
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 13:11:53 GMT
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 5:46:11 GMT
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 16:00:46 GMT
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 15:04:41 GMT
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 16:33:42 GMT
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 14:15:47 GMT
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 16:47:10 GMT
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 15:57:47 GMT
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 5:12:25 GMT
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 15:07:56 GMT
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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Post by gator on Nov 26, 2021 15:07:10 GMT
Deep unspeakable suffering may well be called a baptism, a regeneration, the initiation into a new state.
George Eliot
(1819-1880)
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Post by gator on Nov 27, 2021 17:06:22 GMT
Heroism feels and never reasons, and therefore is always right.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
(1803-1882)
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