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Posted on January 15, 2018January 15, 2018

“Words are the physicians of a mind diseased.”—Aeschylus, Greek playwright, 525-456 BC

Posted on January 13, 2018January 13, 2018

“A good uniform must work its way with the women, sooner or later.”—Charles Dickens, English writer & social critic, 1812-1870

Posted on December 16, 2017December 16, 2017

“Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that somebody may be looking.”—H. L. Mencken, American satirist, 1880-1956

Posted on December 14, 2017December 14, 2017

“Sometimes it is more important to discover what one cannot do, than what one can do.”—Lin Yutang, Chinese inventor, 1895-1976

Posted on November 2, 2017November 2, 2017

“The coldness of a friend is better than the sweetness of an enemy.”—Irish proverb

Posted on September 22, 2017September 22, 2017

“There are 350 varieties of shark, not counting loan and pool.”—L.M. Boyd, newspaper columnist, 1927-2007

Posted on August 27, 2017August 27, 2017

“Never explain—your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.”—Elbert Hubbard, American writer, 1856-1915

Posted on August 24, 2017August 24, 2017

“By convention there is color, by convention sweetness, by convention bitterness, but in reality there are atoms and space.”—Democritus, Greek philosopher, 460-370 BC

Posted on June 4, 2017

“Actors are the only honest hypocrites.”—William Hazlitt, English drama critic, 1778-1830

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