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- Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested: that is, some books are to be read only in parts, others to be read, but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.
- Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626)
- Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year.
- Horace Mann (1796 - 1859)
- Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
- Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
- Set up as an ideal the facing of reality as honestly and as cheerfully as possible.
- Dr. Karl Menninger (1893 - 1990)
- A tough lesson in life that one has to learn is that not everybody wishes you well.
- Dan Rather (1931 - )
- It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.
- Jonathan Swift (1667 - 1745)
- Never get angry. Never make a threat. Reason with people.
- Mario Puzo (1920 - 1999), 'The Godfather'
- You cannot go around and keep score. If you keep score on the good things and the bad things, you'll find out that you're a very miserable person. God gave man the ability to forget, which is one of the greatest attributes you have. Because if you remember everything that's happened to you, you generally remember that which is the most unfortunate.
- Hubert H. Humphrey (1911 - 1978)
- The modern rule is that every woman should be her own chaperon.
- Amy Vanderbilt (1908 - 1974)
- Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law.
- Japanese Proverb
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