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10 quotes for today - 25 January 2019

One kind word can warm three winter months.
- Japanese proverb


Blow, blow, thou winter wind
Thou art not so unkind,
As man's ingratitude.
- William Shakespeare


Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen.
- Willa Cather, My Antonia


Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart.
- Victor Hugo


Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.
- Plato


I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright


It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
- Walt Disney


Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde


Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
- Leo Tolstoy


Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
- Mark Twain

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