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I forgot that every little action of the common day makes or unmakes character, and that therefore what one has done in the secret chamber one has some day to cry aloud on the house-tops. ~Oscar Wilde



No man should go through life without once experiencing healthy, even bored solitude in the wilderness, finding himself depending solely on himself and thereby learning his true and hidden strength. ~Jack Kerouac



I love sewing and have plenty of material witnesses. ~Author Unknown



Duty is what one expects from others. ~Oscar Wilde



It snowed last year too: I made a snowman and my brother knocked it down and I knocked my brother down and then we had tea. ~Dylan Thomas



Did you ever notice that when you put the words "The" and "IRS" together, it spells "THEIRS?" ~Author Unknown



All of us are experts at practicing virtue at a distance. ~Theodore M. Hesburgh



Life's a journey, not a destination. ~Aerosmith



A grandma's name is little less in love than is the doting title of a mother. ~William Shakespeare



Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter. In love to our wives there is desire; to our sons, ambition; but to our daughters there is something which there are no words to express. ~Joseph Addison



I don't have to like Bush to love America. ~Author Unknown



Surrounded by people who love life, you love it too; surrounded by people who don't, you don't. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966



Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness of the woods before sunrise. ~George Washington Carver



America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves. ~Abraham Lincoln



It is not hard to learn more. What is hard is to unlearn when you discover yourself wrong. ~Martin H. Fischer



In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, bloodshed - they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? - the cuckoo clock. ~Graham Greene & Orson Wells, The Third Man, movie



If a man is a fool, you don't train him out of being a fool by sending him to university. You merely turn him into a trained fool, ten times more dangerous. ~Desmond Bagley



In youth we learn; in age we understand. ~Marie Ebner-Eschenbach



People are pretty much alike. It's only that our differences are more susceptible to definition than our similarities. ~Linda Ellerbee



A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron. ~Horace Mann