Who said:There’s nothing that keeps its youth, So far as I know, but a tree and truth.

20 07 2007

John Christian Bovee

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Jay Leno

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Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good.
Thomas Sowell
The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don’t like their rules whose would you use
Dale Carnegie
The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
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Perhaps better we not obscure the idea that happiness and misery, kindness and greed, and good works and bad deeds are within the capacities of us all, not merely a select few.
The best of men cannot suspend their fate The good die early, and the bad die late.
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Authenticity matters little, though our willingness to accept legends depends far more upon their expression of concepts we want to believe than upon their plausibility.

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Be civil to all sociable to many familiar with few friend to one enemy to none.
Benjamin Franklin
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
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Life must be lived as play.
Plato
Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.
H.L. Mencken
Talents are best nurtured in solitude character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read President Can’t Swim.
Lyndon B. Johnson
There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the imagination.
Lawrence George Durrell
Happiness is the only sanction of life where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.
George Santayana
There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don’t know what it’s a plan for.
Fred Hoyle
Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
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Do not speak harshly to any one those who are spoken to will answer thee in the same way. Angry speech is painful blows for blows will touch thee.
Travel only with thy equals or thy betters if there are none, travel alone.
Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who think.
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Under a tattered cloak you will generally find a good drinker.
Danish proverb
Abstainer. A weak man who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.
Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
If you want to sue somebody, just get a little plastic skeleton and lay it in their yard. Then tell them their ants ate your baby.
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Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections. For love which hath ends, will have an end whereas that which is founded on true virtue, will always continue.
John Dryden

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