"true courtesy ... is real kindness kindly expressed."

-- Julia McNair Wright

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“Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it.”

Source : Langston Hughes (2002). “The Collected Works of Langston Hughes: Essays on art, race, politics, and world affairs”, p.525, University of Missouri Press
“There is a flower, a little flower With silver crest and golden eye, That welcomes every changing hour, And weathers every sky.”

Source : Samuel Rogers, Thomas Campbell, James Montgomery, Charles Lamb, Henry Kirke White (1830). “The poetical works of Rogers, Campbell, J. Montgomery, Lamb, and Kirke White: complete in one volume”, p.315
“At 50$ per barrel of oil we shall lose about three trillion rubles of budget income”
“You see a woman, 22 years old, going out with a guy over 60 - and it's kind of natural. But if it happens in the opposite direction everyone says, 'What is going on there?”
“Iran is a great problem, but not necessarily a great country. In fact, I think it is a very weak country.”
“We exist to exhibit God, to display his glory. We serve as canvases for his brush stroke, papers for his pen, soil for his seeds, glimpses of his image.”
“To appreciate a work of art, is it okay to like what you like, and the heck with the art critics and experts? Absolutely.”

Source : Thomas Hoving (2011). “Art For Dummies”, p.42, John Wiley & Sons
“The attainment of knowledge is the high and exclusive attribute of man, among the numberless myriads of animated beings, inhabitants of the terrestrial globe. On him alone is bestowed, by the bounty of the Creator of the universe, the power and the capacity of acquiring knowledge. Knowledge is the attribute of his nature which at once enables him to improve his condition upon earth, and to prepare him for the enjoyment of a happier existence hereafter.”

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