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Gossip is always a personal confession of malice or imbecility; it is a low, frivolous, and too often a dirty business. There are neighborhoods where it rages like a pest; churches are split in pieces by it, and neighbor made enemies for life. Let the young avoid or cure it while they may.: Jack Holland
I think I may define taste to be that faculty of the soul which discerns the beauties of an author with pleasure, and the imperfections with dislike.: Joseph Addison (1672 - 1719)
Words learned by rote a parrot may rehearse; but talking is not always to converse, not more distinct from harmony divine, the constant creaking of a country sign.: William Cowper (1731 - 1800)
As empty vessels make the loudest sound, so they that have least with are the greatest babblers.: Plato (427 BC - 347 BC)
If thy words be too luxuriant, confine them, lest they confine thee. He that thinks he can never speak enough, may easily speak too much. A full tongue and an empty brain are seldom parted.: Francis Quarles (1592 - 1644)
Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never.: Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 - 1834)
We are healed from suffering only by experiencing it to the full.: Marcel Proust (1871 - 1922)
The secret of success is to do all you can do without thought of success.: Author Unknown
Big men become big by doing what they didn't want to do when they didn't want to do it.: Author Unknown
Replying to the tributes paid to him at a testimonial dinner, Herbert Bayard Swope said; "I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure. Try to please everybody.": Author Unknown

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