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Posted on March 23, 2021March 23, 2021

“There are so few who can grow old with a good grace.”—Richard Steele, Irish writer, 1672-1729

Posted on March 22, 2021March 22, 2021

“The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what Fiction means.”—Oscar Wilde, Irish poet & playwright, 1854-1900

Posted on March 20, 2021March 20, 2021

“When we build, let us think that we build for ever.”—John Ruskin, English polymath, 1819-1900

Posted on March 16, 2021March 16, 2021

“The cruelest lies are often told in silence.”—Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish novelist, 1850-1894

Posted on March 15, 2021March 15, 2021

“After age 70, it’s patch, patch, patch.”—James Stewart, American actor and US Air Force pilot, 1908-1997

Posted on March 14, 2021

“While both Plato and truth are dear, piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.”—Aristotle, Greek philosopher, 4th century BC

Posted on March 12, 2021

“The great advantage of a hotel is that it’s a refuge from home life.”—George Bernard Shaw, Irish playwright, 1856-1950

Posted on March 11, 2021March 11, 2021

“Humility is truth.”—Desiderius Erasmus. Dutch philosopher, 1466-1536

Posted on March 10, 2021March 10, 2021

“The sun too penetrates into privies, but is not polluted by them.”—Diogenes the Cynic, Greek philosopher, 404-323 BC

Posted on March 8, 2021

“The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.”—Ralph Waldo Emerson, American philosopher & poet, 1803-1882

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