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Posted on November 20, 2022

“In proportion as our inward life fails, we go constantly and desperately to the post office.”—Henry David Thoreau, American essayist, 1817-1862

Posted on November 13, 2022

“Reality is the leading cause of stress for those in touch with it.”—Jane Wagner, American writer, 1935–

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 19, 2022October 19, 2022

“While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert it only irritates.”—Dr. Samuel Johnson, English essayist, 1709-1784

Posted on October 16, 2022October 16, 2022

“A professional is someone who can do his best work when he doesn’t feel like it.”—Alfred Alistair Cook, British-American writer, 1908-2004

Posted on October 11, 2022October 10, 2022

“Speech is the small change of silence.”—George Meredith, English novelist,1828-1909

Posted on September 19, 2022

“Men, like peaches and pears, grow sweet a little while before they begin to decay.”—Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., American jurist, 1841-1935

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 15, 2022

“In a real dark night of the soul it is always three o’clock in the morning.”—F. Scott Fitzgerald, American novelist, 1896-1940

Posted on September 12, 2022

“You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.”—Aristophanes, Greek playwright, 446-386 BC

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