"She that asks Her dear five hundred friends, contemns them all, And hates their coming."

“But every age deserves its fashion and its forms, and no one can control what survives.”

“I'll lose about 20 pounds during the season.”

“Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose, But young men think it is, and we were young.”

Source : More Poems (1936) no. 36

“But who knows their own child? You know bits - certain predictable reactions, a handful of familiar qualities. The rest is impenetrable. And quite right too. You give birth to them. You do not design them.”

“Is the care of the dying man truly robbing care from the poor man? How reliably can we know when someone is in the last ten days of life?”

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“And in a democracy, when we say we're mad at what's going on, what we need to be saying is we're mad at ourselves.”

“Why are some people born with a fire in the belly, while others need something to get their pilot light lit?”

“Apology is not for the faint of heart, but then, neither is life.”

Source : John Kador (2009). “Effective Apology: Mending Fences, Building Bridges, and Restoring Trust”, p.240, Berrett-Koehler Publishers