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  • #1
    Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another What! You
    “Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
    C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

  • #2
    Maurice Switzer
    “It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it.”
    Maurice Switzer, Mrs. Goose, Her Book

  • #3
    Eleanor Roosevelt
    “A woman is like a tea bag; you never know how strong it is until it's in hot water.”
    Eleanor Roosevelt

  • #4
    Oscar Wilde
    “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #5
    Jim Henson
    “Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye.”
    Jim Henson

  • #6
    Thomas A. Edison
    “I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.”
    Thomas A. Edison

  • #7
    Mother Teresa
    “If you judge people, you have no time to love them.”
    Mother Teresa

  • #8
    Walter M. Miller Jr.
    “You don’t have a soul, Doctor. You are a soul. You have a body, temporarily.”
    Walter M. Miller Jr., A Canticle for Leibowitz

  • #9
    Anna Quindlen
    “Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.”
    Anna Quindlen, How Reading Changed My Life

  • #10
    Agatha Christie
    “It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them. ”
    Agatha Christie, Agatha Christie: An Autobiography

  • #11
    Stephen  King
    “Fiction is the truth inside the lie.”
    Stephen King

  • #12
    “Virtue is the stepping stone to love; love is the stepping stone to enlightenment, and enlightenment is the stepping stone to freedom.”
    Matshona Dhliwayo

  • #13
    “You meet many wolves in sheep’s clothing;
    you are prey until they find out
    you have the heart of a lion.
    You meet many snakes in the grass;
    you are in danger until you burn
    the plain in which they hide.

    Worse than a hostile enemy
    is an accomplished, secret one.
    Worse than a foolish superior
    is an impenitent, arrogant one.
    Worse than a sage's rebuke
    is life's chastisement.”
    Matshona Dhliwayo

  • #14
    “Knowledge is the orchestra, understanding is the conductor, wisdom is the symphony.”
    Matshona Dhliwayo

  • #15
    “Ignorance is an ugly duckling, knowledge is a beautiful swan.”
    Matshona Dhliwayo

  • #16
    “You are rewarded by your good deeds, not by your noble intentions.”
    Matshona Dhliwayo



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