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- We do our children no favour by keeping them near, coddling them, or showing them off to adult visitors. Not that a nursemaid does not sometimes spoil them. But the greatest favour we can do our children is to give visible example of love and esteem to our spouse. As they grow up, they may then look forward to maturity so they too can find such love.
- Eucharista Ward, Match For Mary Bennet, 2009
- When wasteful war shall statues overturn,
And broils root out the work of masonry, Nor Mars his sword nor wars quick fire shall burn The living record of your memory. - William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Sonnet LV
- Beware the ides of March.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Sonnet LVI
- A thought which, quarter'd, hath but one part wisdom and ever three parts coward.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Hamlet, Act IV, sc. 4
- Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore,
So do our minutes hasten to their end. - William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Sonnet LX
- All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you; the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was.
- Ernest Hemingway (1899 - 1961), Old Newsman Writes, Esquire, December 1934
- If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times ready for War.
- George Washington (1732 - 1799), Fifth annual address to Congress, December 13, 1793
- Now the trumpet summons us again—not as a call to bear arms, though arms we need; not as a call to battle, though embattled we are—but a call to bear the burden of a long twilight struggle, year in and year out, "rejoicing in hope, patient in tribulation"—a struggle against the common enemies of man: tyranny, poverty, disease, and war itself.
- John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963), Inaugural Adress, January 20, 1961
- For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from the force of character.
- Baruch Spinoza (1632 - 1677), Tractatus Politicus
- In a scheme of policy which is devised for a nation, we should not limit our views to its operation during a single year, or even for a short term of years. We should look at its operation for a considerable time, and in war as well as in peace.
- Henry Clay (1777 - 1852)
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