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Oh for a book and a shady nook...: John Wilson (1785 - 1854)
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Work is the curse of the drinking classes.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), In Life of Oscar Wilde, H. Pearson
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Kindred spirits are not so scarce as I used to think. It's splendid to find out there are so many of them in the world.: L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908
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Whenever you commend, add your reasons for doing so; it is this which distinguishes the approbation of a man of sense from the flattery of sycophants and admiration of fools.: Sir Richard Steele
Actions lie louder than words.: Carolyn Wells
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Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.: Mason Cooley, O Magazine, April 2004
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Never confuse movement with action.: Ernest Hemingway (1899 - 1961)
Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things.: Russell Baker (1925 - )
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Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience.: George Washington (1732 - 1799)
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A committee is a cul-de-sac down which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled.: Sir Barnett Cocks (1907 - 1989)
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We've always been here and we'll always be here. We are a specific arrangement of particles and this instant is infinite. Did we luck out, or didn't we? The odds against this sentence having ever being typed, much less the odds against you reading it were inconceivable. Smile, because the fact that you're able to is almost impossible to comprehend.: Jeffrey Rowland, Sound! 12-22-05
At the worst, a house unkept cannot be so distressing as a life unlived.: Dame Rose Macaulay (1881 - 1958)
Fall seven times, stand up eight.: Japanese Proverb
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Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.: Will Durant (1885 - 1981)
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To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend.: Jacques Derrida (1930 - 2004)
We must not allow the clock and the calendar to blind us to the fact that each moment of life is a miracle and mystery.: H. G. Wells (1866 - 1946)
A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.: Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890 - 1969)
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Oh sleep! It is a gentle thing, Beloved from pole to pole.: Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 - 1834)
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I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.: Woody Allen (1935 - )
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Go often to the house of thy friend; for weeds soon choke up the unused path.: Scandinavian Proverb
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