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- Associate with well-mannered persons and your manners will improve. Run around with decent folk and your own decent instincts will be strengthened.
- Stanley Walker
- Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.
- Bette Davis (1908 - 1989)
- The best cure for worry, depression, melancholy, brooding, is to go deliberately forth and try to lift with one's sympathy the gloom of somebody else.
- Arnold Bennett
- Worries go down better with soup than without.
- Jewish Proverb
- Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.
- Euripides (484 BC - 406 BC)
- Let tears flow of their own accord: their flowing is not inconsistent with inward peace and harmony.
- Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD)
- The secret of a good memory is attention, and attention to a subject depends upon our interest in it. We rarely forget that which has made a deep impression on our minds.
- Tryon Edwards (1809 - 1894)
- The palest ink is better than the best memory.
- Chinese Proverb
- Attempt easy tasks as if they were difficult, and difficult as if they were easy; in the one case that confidence may not fall asleep, in the other that it may not be dismayed.
- Baltasar Gracian
- I'm very pleased with each advancing year. It stems back to when I was forty. I was a bit upset about reaching that milestone, but an older friend consoled me. 'Don't complain about growing old - many, many people do not have that privilege.'
- Earl Warren (1891 - 1974), Chief Justice
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