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Honesty is a good thing

  Honesty is a good thing, but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control. - Don Marquis Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without asking a clear question. - Albert Camus I am a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy. - J. D. Salinger Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary. - Robert Louis Stevenson Do something every day that you don't want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain. -Mark Twain This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it. - Ralph Waldo Emerson The best way to teach your kids about taxes is by eating 30% of their ice cream. - Bill Murray The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity. - Walt Whitman I have left orders to be awakened at any time in case of national emergency, even if I'm in a cabinet meeting. - Ronald ...

Give all to love

  Give all to love; obey thy heart. - Ralph Waldo Emerson In the fight between you and the world, back the world.  - Frank Zappa If everything seems under control, you're not going fast enough. - Mario Andretti Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. - Ronald Reagan If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play at it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf. - Bob Hope To the soul, there is hardly anything more healing than friendship. - Thomas Moore Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence. - Robert Frost The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it. - Woodrow Wilson A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic. - George Bernard Shaw Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in. - Leonardo da Vinci READ MORE NICE

10 quotes for today - 18 January 2019

When ideas fail, words come in very handy. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power. - Abraham Lincoln Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them. - Publilius Syrus, Maxims Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men. - Seneca, Epistles In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends. - John Churton Collins Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity. - Socrates I have failed many times, and that's why I am a success. - Michael Jordan Being a woman is a terribly difficult task since it consists principally in dealing with men. - Joseph Conrad The nine most terrifying words in the English language are, 'I'm from the government and I'm here to help.' - Ronald Reagan Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All yo...