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I have always felt a gift diamond shines so much better than one you buy for yourself. ~Mae West



No one knows whether death is really the greatest blessing a man can have, but they fear it is the greatest curse, as if they knew well. ~Plato



If you must be in a hurry, then let it be according to the old adage, and hasten slowly. ~Saint Vincent de Paul



Women's Liberation is just a lot of foolishness. It's the men who are discriminated against. They can't bear children. And no one's likely to do anything about that. ~Golda Meir



Her hair possessed so powerful an animal odor and was so electrically stimulating, that its mere contact with my skin instantaneously made me forget fever, fatigue and pain... and I immediately felt heroic ardor and new strength flowing and surging through my veins. ~"The Garden," Chapter 1



Sorrow makes us all children again - destroys all differences of intellect. The wisest know nothing. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson



To choose a good book, look in an inquisitor�s prohibited list. ~John Aikin



The best and most efficient pharmacy is within your own system. ~Robert C. Peale The best and most efficient pharmacy is within your own system. ~Robert C. Peale



Fear is the needle that pierces us that it may carry a thread to bind us to heaven. ~James Hastings



A good digestion turneth all to health. ~George Herbert, "The Church Porch," The Temple, 1633



I often derive a peculiar satisfaction in conversing with the ancient and modern dead, - who yet live and speak excellently in their works. My neighbors think me often alone, - and yet at such times I am in company with more than five hundred mutes - each of whom, at my pleasure, communicates his ideas to me by dumb signs - quite as intelligently as any person living can do by uttering of words. ~Laurence Sterne



Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity. ~George Smith Patton, War as I Knew It, 1947



A bore is a fellow who opens his mouth and puts his feats in it. ~Henry Ford



Pleasure is the flower that passes; remembrance, the lasting perfume. ~Jean de Boufflers



Physics is imagination in a straight jacket. ~John Moffat



You purchase pain with all that joy can give, and die of nothing but a rage to live. ~Alexander Pope



Only the man who has enough good in him to feel the justice of the penalty can be punished. ~William Ernest Hocking



It ain't like football. You can't make up no trick plays. ~Yogi Berra



One hates an author that's all author. ~George Gordon, Lord Byron, "Beppo"



Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. ~Bible, John 15:13