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To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet. ~Charles Caleb Colton, Lacon, 1825


Poker's a day to learn and a lifetime to master. ~Robert Williamson III


A #6 aluminum needle has been known to furnish an excellent emergency shearpin for an outboard motor. ~Elizabeth Zimmerman


Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark. ~Rabindranath Tagore


Investors have very short memories. ~Roman Abramovich


There is no personal charm so great as the charm of a cheerful temperament. ~Henry Van Dyke


Everybody can be great. Because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and your verb agree to serve.... You don't have to know the second theory of thermodynamics in physics to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love. ~Martin Luther King, Jr.


I believe in rules. Sure I do. If there weren't any rules, how could you break them? ~Leo Durocher


Unselfish and noble actions are the most radiant pages in the biography of souls. ~David Thomas


If man were immortal he could be perfectly sure of seeing the day when everything in which he had trusted should betray his trust, and, in short, of coming eventually to hopeless misery. He would break down, at last, as every good fortune, as every dynasty, as every civilization does. In place of this we have death. ~Charles Sanders Peirce


Intaxication: Euphoria at getting a refund from the IRS, which lasts until you realize it was your money to start with. ~From a Washington Post word contest


Many persons read and like fiction. It does not tax the intelligence and the intelligence of most of us can so ill afford taxation that we rightly welcome any reading matter which avoids this. ~Rose Macaulay


Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn't stop to enjoy it. ~William Feather


We are spirits clad in veils. ~Christopher P. Cranch


To be dragged in the wake of the passive flock and to pass a hundred and one times beneath the shears of the shepherd, or to die alone like a brave eagle on a rocky crag of a great mountain: that is the dilemma. ~Praxedis Guerrero, RegeneraciOn, 18 February 1911


Things are entirely what they appear to be and behind them... there is nothing. ~Jean Paul Sartre, Nausea


Adam and Eve had many advantages, but the principal one was that they escaped teething. ~Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar


Exaggeration is a blood relation to falsehood and nearly as blamable. ~Hosea Ballou


To character and success, two things, contradictory as they may seem, must go together... humble dependence on God and manly reliance on self. ~William Wordsworth


Macho doesn't prove mucho. ~Zsa Zsa Gabor