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- Leave well - even 'pretty well' - alone: that is what I learn as I get old.
- Edward Fitzgerald (1809 - 1883)
- Reveal not every secret you have to a friend, for how can you tell but that friend may hereafter become an enemy. And bring not all mischief you are able to upon an enemy, for he may one day become your friend.
- Saadi (1184 - 1291)
- 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)
- 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
- If you can't have faith in what is held up to you for faith, you must find things to believe in yourself, for a life without faith in something is too narrow a space to live.
- George E. Woodberry
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