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The very ink with which all history is written is merely fluid prejudice. ~Mark Twain, Following the Equator



To poke a wood fire is more solid enjoyment than almost anything else in the world. ~Charles Dudley Warner



To labor is to pray. ~Motto of the Benedictines



When we Indians kill meat, we eat it all up.... When we build houses, we make little holes. When we burn grass for grasshoppers, we don't ruin things. We shake down acorns and pinenuts. We don't chop down the trees. ~Wintu Indian, quoted in Julian Burger, The Gaia Atlas of First Peoples, 1990



He who writes prose builds his temple to Fame in rubble; he who writes verses builds it in granite. ~Edward Bulwer-Lytton



The best way to keep one's word is not to give it. ~Napoleon I, Maxims



The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light. ~Matthew Arnold



If you don't understand how a woman could both love her sister dearly and want to wring her neck at the same time, then you were probably an only child. ~Linda Sunshine



Give the church a place in the Constitution, let her touch once more the sword of power, and the priceless fruit of all ages will turn to ashes on the lips of men. ~Robert G. Ingersoll, Ingersoll's Works, Vol. 1



Never look down on anybody unless you're helping him up. ~Jesse Jackson



Washington's appointments, when president, were made with a view to gather all the talent of the country in support of the national government; and he bore many things which were personally disagreeable in an endeavor to do this. ~Paul Leicester Ford



Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition. ~Timothy Leary



The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity. ~Walt Whitman



What does a mama bear on the pill have in common with the World Series? No cubs. ~Harry Caray



There is a sort of charm in ugliness, if the person has some redeeming qualities and is only ugly enough. ~Josh Billings



Golf and sex are the only things you can enjoy without being good at them. ~Jimmy DeMaret



Cycle tracks will abound in Utopia. ~H.G. Wells



Men and fish are alike. They both get into trouble when they open their mouths. ~Author Unknown



To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter. ~Euripides



New York is to the nation what the white church spire is to the village - the visible symbol of aspiration and faith, the white plume saying the way is up! ~E.B. White