10 quotes for today - 23 January 2019

The cruelest lies are often told in silence. 
- Robert Louis Stevenson 


Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve. 
- George Bernard Shaw 


A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both. 
- Dwight D. Eisenhower


Advertisements... contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper. 
- Thomas Jefferson


Get not your friends by bare compliments, but by giving them sensible tokens of your love. 
- Socrates 


Content makes poor men rich; discontentment makes rich men poor. 
- Benjamin Franklin 


Happiness depends upon ourselves. 
- Aristotle


Happiness is not the absence of problems, but the ability to deal with them. 
- Charles de Montesquieu 


Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money. 
- Jules Renard


However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results. 
- Sir Winston Churchill 

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