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- When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.
- Thomas Paine (1737 - 1809)
- Get pleasure out of life...as much as you can. Nobody ever died from pleasure.
- Sol Hurok
- We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine; but if we defer tasting them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age.
- Charles Caleb Colton (1780 - 1832)
- Choose your pleasures for yourself, and do not let them be imposed upon you.
- Lord Chesterfield (1694 - 1773)
- To make pleasures pleasant, shorten them.
- Charles Buxton
- Every English poet should master the rules of grammar before he attempts to bend or break them.
- Robert Graves (1895 - 1985)
- Poetry should please by a fine excess and not by singularity. It should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost as a remembrance.
- John Keats (1795 - 1821)
- Carry the battle to them. Don't let them bring it to you. Put them on the defensive. And don't ever apologize for anything.
- Harry S Truman (1884 - 1972)
- Don't sacrifice your political convictions for the convenience of the hour.
- Edward M. Kennedy (1932 - )
- When the water reaches the upper level, follow the rats.
- Claude Swanson (1862 - 1939)
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