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Post by POM Admin on May 16, 2022 1:25:29 GMT
Quote of the Day
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Post by POM Admin on May 16, 2022 1:25:47 GMT
Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.
Abraham Lincoln
(1809-1865)
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Post by POM Admin on May 17, 2022 2:44:24 GMT
Imagination grows by exercise and contrary to common belief is more powerful in the mature than in the young.
W. Somerset Maugham
(1874-1965)
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Post by POM Admin on May 17, 2022 7:11:27 GMT
It is a most extraordinary thing, but I never read a patent medicine advertisement without being impelled to the conclusion that I am suffering from the particular disease therein dealt with in its most virulent form.
Jerome K. Jerome
(1859-1927)
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Post by POM Admin on May 18, 2022 7:22:50 GMT
Abstain and enjoy.
Aesop
(620 BC-560 BC)
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Post by POM Admin on May 19, 2022 20:47:02 GMT
What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!
Nathaniel Hawthorne
(1804-1864)
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Post by POM Admin on May 20, 2022 20:19:27 GMT
Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.
Arthur Conan Doyle
(1859-1930)
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Post by POM Admin on May 21, 2022 16:40:14 GMT
A book is a friend whose face is constantly changing. If you read it when you are recovering from an illness, and return to it years after, it is changed surely, with the change in yourself.
Andrew Lang
(1844-1912)
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Post by POM Admin on May 22, 2022 23:15:31 GMT
Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.
William Shakespeare
(1564-1616)
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Post by POM Admin on May 23, 2022 9:44:32 GMT
No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
Honore de Balzac
(1799-1850)
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Post by POM Admin on May 24, 2022 15:00:08 GMT
The most successful career must show a waste of strength that might have removed mountains, and the most unsuccessful is not that of the man who is taken unprepared, but of him who has prepared and is never taken. On a tragedy of that kind our national morality is duly silent.
E. M. Forster
(1879-1970)
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Post by POM Admin on May 25, 2022 14:36:41 GMT
Being born in a duck yard does not matter, if only you are hatched from a swan's egg.
Hans Christian Andersen
(1805-1875)
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Post by POM Admin on May 26, 2022 17:50:27 GMT
A friend is a second self.
Aristotle
(384 BC-322 BC)
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Post by POM Admin on May 27, 2022 15:29:37 GMT
I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.
Edgar Allan Poe
(1809-1849)
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Post by POM Admin on May 28, 2022 4:22:02 GMT
I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.
James Madison
(1751-1836)
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