Men and women – even man and wife are foreigners. Each has reserves that the other cannot enter into, nor understand. These have the effect of frontiers.
- Mark Twain, Notebook, 1904
July 3, 2014
It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.
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- Mark Twain
June 16, 2014
I inherited that calm from my father, who was a farmer. You sow, you wait for good or bad weather, you harvest, but working is something you always need to do.
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The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.
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- Helen Keller
April 3, 2014
“Sweet April showers, do spring May flowers.”
This is a popular rhyme often heard around springtime, and can be traced back to the mid 1500s.
- THOMAS TUSSER, “A Hundred Good Points of Husbandry”
March 25, 2014
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results