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Posted on December 13, 2022December 13, 2022

“Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.”—Oprah Winfrey, American talk show host, 1954-

Posted on December 11, 2022

“To write one’s memoirs is to speak ill of everybody except oneself.”—Henri Pétain, French ambassador, 1876-1944

Posted on November 14, 2022November 14, 2022

“Gossip is news running ahead of itself in a red satin dress.”—Liz Smith, American gossip columnist, 1923-2017

Posted on October 26, 2022October 25, 2022

“Every man is the architect of his own fortune.”—Sallust, Roman historian, 86 BC–c.35 BC

Posted on October 22, 2022October 22, 2022

“I am amazed that anyone who has made a fortune should send for his friends.”—Aristophanes, Greek playwright, 446-386 BC

Posted on October 18, 2022October 18, 2022

“Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.”—Napoleon Bonaparte, French statesman, 1769-1821

Posted on September 21, 2022September 20, 2022

“When armies are mobilized and issues joined, the man who is sorry over the fact will win.”—Lao-tzu, Chinese philosopher, 604-531 BC

Posted on September 19, 2022September 18, 2022

“There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method.”—Herman Melville, American novelist, 1819-1891

Posted on September 14, 2022

“Men are eager to tread underfoot what they have once too much feared.”—Lucretius (Titus Lucretius Carus), Roman philosopher, 1st century BC

Posted on September 10, 2022September 10, 2022

“What greater grief than the loss of one’s native land?”—Euripides, Greek dramatist, 481-407 BC

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