"I know what every colored woman in this country is doing... Dying. Just like me. But the difference is they dying like a stump. Me, Iâ€™m going down like one of those redwoods. I sure did live in this world."

-- Toni Morrison

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“A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.”

Source : "Birds". Comedy by Aristophanes, 414 BC.
“As long as a man does not sin, he is feared. As soon as he sins, he himself is in fear.”
“I think everyone has the ability to be loved.”
“In vain will you fly from one vice if in your wilfulness you embrace another.”
“Debt is always repaid, either by the borrower or by the lender.”
“Some people say they're retired and it means they have time to do things they want to do. I have always had the privilege to engage in my hobbies as if they were work. And they are. So hobbies are work, but work that you want to do; they are play. Retirement? That sounds like you're going to passively walk into the sunset and disappear.”
“Friendship, love, health, energy, enthusiasm, and joy are the things that make life worth living and exploring.”

Source : FaceBook post by Denise Austin from May 20, 2014
“Next to happiness, perhaps enmity is the most healthful stimulant of the human mind.”

Source : Margaret Oliphant (2015). “Delphi Works of Margaret Oliphant with Complete Stories of the Seen and Unseen”, p.2048, Delphi Classics

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