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Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it. ~Russel Baker



Logic is neither a science nor an art, but a dodge. ~Benjamin Jowett



Leisure only means a chance to do other jobs that demand attention. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.



All problems become smaller if you don't dodge them but confront them. ~William F. Halsey



Every mile is two in winter. ~George Herbert



We are free, truly free, when we don't need to rent our arms to anybody in order to be able to lift a piece of bread to our mouths. ~Ricardo Flores Magon, speech, 31 May 1914



Wine is bottled poetry. ~Robert Louis Stevenson



Homecoming means football, festivities, and friendship. ~Author Unknown



The young do not need God, and the old cannot find Him. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966



He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would fully suffice. ~Albert Einstein



Few love to hear the sins they love to act. ~William Shakespeare



You become responsible forever for what you've tamed. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupery, The Little Prince, 1943, translated from French by Richard Howard



Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness. ~George Bernard Shaw, Maxims for Revolutionists



It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways. ~Buddha



America is a passionate idea or it is nothing. America is a human brotherhood or it is chaos. ~Max Lerner, Actions and Passions, 1949



There's nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child. ~Erma Bombeck, I Lost Everything in the Post-Natal Depression



A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone. ~Henry David Thoreau



Christmas begins about the first of December with an office party and ends when you finally realize what you spent, around April fifteenth of the next year. ~P.J. O'Rourke, Modern Manners



Life is an incurable Disease. ~Abraham Cowley



The precursor of the mirror is the mother's face. ~D.W. Winnicott, Playing and Reality, 1971