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- Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Hamlet, 1600
- The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.
- Charles Dudley Warner (1829 - 1900), 'Eleventh Study,' Backlog Studies, 1873
- The future is an opaque mirror. Anyone who tries to look into it sees nothing but the dim outlines of an old and worried face.
- Jim Bishop, New York Journal-American, March 14, 1959
- A preoccupation with the future not only prevents us from seeing the present as it is but often prompts us to rearrange the past.
- Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983), The Passionate State of Mind, 1954
- There is nothing like dream to create the future. Utopia to-day, flesh and blood tomorrow.
- Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885), Les Miserables, 1862
- Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or to lose.
- Lyndon B. Johnson (1908 - 1973), address to the nation, November 28, 1963
- We know what we are, but know not what we may be.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Hamlet, 1600
- O that a man might know the end of this day's business ere it come!
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Julius Caesar, 1599-1600
- It is the duty of every citizen according to his best capacities to give validity to his convictions in political affairs.
- Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955), 'Treasury for the Free World,' 1946
- There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.
- Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885), 'Les Miserables,' 1862
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