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Henry David Thoreau. Photo: Google What people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. - Henry David Thoreau The pleasure of love is in loving. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way... you become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions. - Aristotle The price of greatness is responsibility. - Sir Winston Churchill Crime does not pay ... as well as politics. - Alfred E. Newman Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be. - Anton Chekhov There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness. - Friedrich Nietzsche Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. - H. L. Mencken Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination. - Voltaire Love is an irresistible desir...

10 quotes for today

One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.  - Oscar Wilde  As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death. -  Leonardo da Vinci  Man is what he believes.  - Anton Chekhov  True silence is the rest of the mind; it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.  - William Penn   A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.  - G. K. Chesterton  A room without books is like a body without a soul.  - Cicero  I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.   - Groucho Marx  Woe be to him that reads but one book.  - George Herbert  Most new books are forgotten within a year, especially by those who borrow them.  - Evan Esar Laws are like sausages. It's better not to see them being made.  - Ot...