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Good and Wise Saying

Nature gave us one tongue and two ears so we could hear twice as much as we speak.
Epictetus

What the Nation must realize is that the home, when both parents work, is non-existent. Once we have honestly faced that fact, we must act accordingly.
Agnes Meyer

I want a house that has got over all its troubles; I don't want to spend the rest of my life bringing up a young and inexperienced house.
Jerome K. Jerome

Where thou art, that is home.
Emily Dickinson

Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.
Frank Lloyd Wright (American architect, 1869-1959)

True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld

The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity - love. And the story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity."
Helen Hayes

Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading men, and studying all the various editions of them."
Lord Chesterfield in "Letters to his Son"

When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time
thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him
and what he is going to say.
Abraham Lincoln

The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
Robert Louis Stevenson

"Personally, I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught."

Winston Churchill

"Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction."

Anne Frank

A man does not have to be an angel in order to be saint.

Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965)

"Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family:
Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one."

Jane Howard

"Parents: Persons who spend half their time worrying how a child will turn
out, and the rest of the time wondering when a child will turn in."

Ted Cook

Joke

Grandmother (to her grandchild, who wants the light left on): "But you sleep fine in the dark at home, sweetheart."
Child: "Yes, but at home it's my own dark."

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