"I can be on guard against my enemies, but God deliver me from my friends!"

-- Charlotte Bronte

“Iâ€™m never sad when a friend goes far away, because whichever city or country that friend goes to, they turn the place friendly. They turn a suspicious-looking name on the map into a place where a welcome can be found. Maybe the friend will talk about you sometimes, to other friends that live around him, and then thatâ€™s almost as good as being there yourself. Youâ€™re in several places at once! In fact, my daughter, I would even go so far as to say that the further away your friends, and the more spread out they are the better your chances of going safely through the worldâ€¦”
“The big and the fast beat the small and the fast. If you check out the NBA today, they're big and fast.”
“If the affairs of the world were put in the hands of the screwball artists, it couldnâ€™t be in a worse state than it is now !”
“Both in verse and in prose [Karl] Shapiro loves, partly out of indignation and partly out of sheer mischievousness, to tell the naked truths or half-truths or quarter-truths that will make anybody's hair stand on end; he is always crying: "But he hasn't any clothes on!" about an emperor who is half the time surprisingly well-dressed.”
“Let no guilty man escape, if it can he avoided. . . . No personal consideration should stand in the way of performing a public duty.”
“The assumption must be that those who can see value only in tradition, or versions of it, deny man's ability to adapt to changing circumstances.”
“Fighting clutter is like fighting weeds-the writer is always slightly behind,”
“If we don't make tough decisions today our children are going to have to make much, much tougher decisions tomorrow.”

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