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Prowling his own quiet backyard or asleep by the fire, he is still only a whisker away from the wilds. ~Jean Burden



It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passions, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace. ~Andre Gide, Journals, 13 September 1938



The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present. ~Niccolo Machiavelli



One hates an author that's all author. ~George Gordon, Lord Byron, "Beppo"



Tea should be taken in solitude. ~C.S. Lewis



You sometimes see a woman who would have made a Joan of Arc in another century and climate, threshing herself to pieces over all the mean worry of housekeeping. ~Rudyard Kipling



The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese. ~Author Unknown



Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking together in the same direction. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupery



The great man is he who does not lose his child's-heart. ~Mencius, Book IV



Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant - the digitalis of failure. ~Elbert Hubbard



Every exit is an entrance somewhere else. ~Tom Stoppard



My movements to the chair of government will be accompanied by feelings not unlike those of a culprit who is going to the place of his execution. ~George Washington, letter, 1789



The wind shows us how close to the edge we are. ~Joan Didion



Gifts of time and love are surely the basic ingredients of a truly merry Christmas. ~Peg Bracken



Alimony is like buying oats for a dead horse. ~Arthur Baer



I recently became a Christian Scientist. It was the only health plan I could afford. ~Betsy Salkind



Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones at hand do more toward a happy life than whole volumes that we know not where to find. ~Seneca



Real difficulties can be overcome, it is only the imaginary ones that are unconquerable. ~Theodore N. Vail



Thrift means that you should always have the best you can possibly afford, when the thing has any reference to your physical and mental health, to your growth in efficiency and power. ~Orison Swett Marden



Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked. ~Oliver W. Holmes, Sr., The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, 1858