No mockery in the

No mockery in the world ever sounds to me as hollow as that of being told to cultivate happiness Happiness is not a potato, to be planted in mould, and tilled with manure.

~ Charlotte Bronte

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I am glad to hear you smoke. A man should always have an occupation of some kind.

~ Oscar Wilde

We live in an age when to be young and indifferent can no longer be synonymous. We must prepare for the coming hour. The claims of the Future are represented by suffering millions and the Youth of a Nation are the trustees of Posterity.

~ Benjamin Disraeli

The only limits are those of vision.

~ James Broughton

Washington D.C. is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.

~ John F. Kennedy

Someone asked me why women don’t gamble as much as men do, and I gave the commonsensical reply that we don’t have as much money. That was a true and incomplete answer. In fact, women’s total instinct for gambling is satisfied by marriage.

~ Gloria Steinem

Determination gives you the resolve to keep going in spite of the roadblocks that lay before you.

~ Denis Waitley

Is virtue a thing remote I wish to be virtuous, and lo Virtue is at hand.

~ Confucius

Friendship is like a sheltering tree.

~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another.

~ Juvenal

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