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Month: February 2017

Posted on February 28, 2017February 28, 2017

“Speak when you are angry, and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.”—Ambrose Bierce, American journalist, 1842-1914

Posted on February 27, 2017

“Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him.”—Aldous Huxley, English novelist, 1894-1963

Posted on February 25, 2017February 25, 2017

“Honesty is praised while it starves.”—Decimus Juvenal, Roman poet, 1st-2nd centuries, AD

Posted on February 24, 2017February 24, 2017

“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.”—Franklin D. Roosevelt, American president, 1882-1945

Posted on February 23, 2017February 23, 2017

“We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.”—Dr. Samuel Johnson, English writer, 18th century

Posted on February 21, 2017February 21, 2017

“It’s stupid to stop in the middle of a crime.”—Seneca the Younger, Roman humorist, 1st century AD

Posted on February 20, 2017

“He is bad who will not take advice, but a thousand times worse is he who takes every advice.”—Irish proverb

Posted on February 19, 2017February 19, 2017

“If you make money you must economize quickly, or you’ll quickly go hungry.”—Titus Plautus, Roman playwright, 254-184 BC

Posted on February 18, 2017February 18, 2017

“Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.”—Sinclair Lewis, American novelist, 1885-1951

Posted on February 16, 2017February 16, 2017

“Let the punishment match the offense.”—Marcus Cicero, Roman lawyer, 106-43 BC

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