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Frederick Buechner, Wishful Thinking, 1973


Despair has been called the unforgivable sin--not presumably because God refuses to forgive it but because it despairs of the possibility of being forgiven.

Voltaire


The public is a ferocious beast -- one must either chain it up or flee from it.

Jerome K Jerome


It is always the best policy to tell the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.

French Proverb


Honey is sweet but bees sting.

Frank Herbert, Chenoeh: "Coversations with Leto II"


Life cannot find reasons to sustain it, cannot be a source of decent natural regard, unless each of us resolves to breathe such qualities into it.

Robert Penn Warren


The end of man is knowledge but there's one thing he can't know. He can't know whether knowledge will save him or kill him. He will be killed, all right, but he can't know whether he is killed because of the knowledge which he has got or because of the knowledge which he hasn't got and which if he had it would save him.

Clarence Day


Creatures whose mainspring is curiosity enjoy the accumulating of facts far more than the pausing at times to reflect on those facts.

Glenda Cloud


Change is inevitable, growth is intentional.

Sophocles


To err from the right path is common to mankind.

George Gordon Byron


Wives in their husbands' absences grow subtler, And daughters sometimes run off with the butler.

Winnie-the-Pooh by A. A. Milne


Sing Ho! For the life of a Bear!

William Pitt


Confidence is a plant of slow growth in an aged bosom.

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