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Property left to a child may soon be lost; but the inheritance of virtue--a good name an unblemished reputation--will abide forever. If those who are toiling for wealth to leave their children, would but take half the pains to secure for them virtuous habits, how much more serviceable would they be. The largest property may be wrested from a child, but virtue will stand by him to the last.: William Graham Sumner (1840 - 1910)
I pray you bear me henceforth from the noise and rumour of the field, where I may think the remnant of my thoughts in peace, and part of this body and my soul with contemplation and devout desires.: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
There is an art of which every man should be a master the art of reflection. If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all?: William Hart Coleridge
Repentance may begin instantly, but reformation often requires a sphere of years.: Henry Ward Beecher (1813 - 1887)
Of writing well the source and fountainhead is wise thinking.: Horace (65 BC - 8 BC)
The more minimal the art, the more maximum the explanation.: Hilton Kramer
Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood.: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
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The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.: Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900), The Dawn, Sec. 297
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A wretched soul, bruised with adversity, We bid be quiet when we hear it cry; But were we burdened with like weight of pain, As much or more we should ourselves complain.: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
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It was once said that the moral test of Government is how that Government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped.: Hubert H. Humphrey (1911 - 1978)

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