Today Quotes
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Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them all.Oliver Wendell Holmes, The autocrat of the breakfast-table
His honour rooted in dishonour stood,
And faith unfaithful kept him falsely true.Lord Alfred Tennyson
It is the simple things in life that make living worthwhile - sweet fundamental things such as love.Laura Ingalls Wilder
Wear a smile and have friends,
wear a scowl and have wrinkles.George Eliot
Friendships that have stood the test of time and change are surely best.Joseph Parry
Fight for your opinions, but do not believe that they contain the whole truth, or the only truth.Charles A. Dana
Our critics are our friends; they show us our faults.Benjamin Franklin
I feel how little she can like being told of her owing me anything. No woman ever enjoys such an obligation to another woman.Henry James, "The Ambassadors", Book Seventh, Chapter 2
It struck him really that he had never so lived with her as during this period of her silence; the silence was a sacred hush, a finer clearer medium, in which her idiosyncrasies showed.Henry James, "The Ambassadors", Book Seventh, Chapter 3
A little learning is a dangerous thing; drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring: there shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, and drinking largely sobers us again.Alexander Pope, An essay on Criticism