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Wowsers
Feb 28, 2010 16:51:56 GMT 10
Post by Tamrin on Feb 28, 2010 16:51:56 GMT 10
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Post by maximus on Mar 1, 2010 3:17:39 GMT 10
And they shave with straight razors, for some reason.
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Wowsers
Mar 14, 2010 12:27:30 GMT 10
Post by Tamrin on Mar 14, 2010 12:27:30 GMT 10
He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire
Winston Churchill (1874 / 1965)
I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue
Albert Einstein (Born this day 1879)
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Wowsers
Mar 23, 2010 8:00:57 GMT 10
Post by Tamrin on Mar 23, 2010 8:00:57 GMT 10
Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all
Stendhal (Died this day 1842)
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Wowsers
Mar 24, 2010 17:40:34 GMT 10
Post by Tamrin on Mar 24, 2010 17:40:34 GMT 10
Those who appear the most sanctified are the worst
Elizabeth I (Died this day 1603)
It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations
Nothing is more unpleasant than a virtuous person with a mean mind
Walter Bagehot (Died this day 1877)
An orgy looks particularly alluring seen through the mists of righteous indignation
Malcolm Muggeridge (Born this day 1903)
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Wowsers
Mar 26, 2010 12:28:43 GMT 10
Post by Tamrin on Mar 26, 2010 12:28:43 GMT 10
I think a man ought to get drunk at least twice a year just on principle, so he won't let himself get snotty about it
Raymond T Chandler (Died this day 1959)
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Wowsers
Apr 14, 2010 9:57:41 GMT 10
Post by Tamrin on Apr 14, 2010 9:57:41 GMT 10
It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues
Abraham Lincoln (Fatally shot this day 1865)
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Wowsers
Apr 20, 2010 10:24:40 GMT 10
Post by Tamrin on Apr 20, 2010 10:24:40 GMT 10
Teetotallers lack the sympathy and generosity of men that drink
William Henry Davies (Born this day 1871)
Most of us believe in trying to make other people happy only if they can be happy in ways which we approve
There is nothing that makes us feel so good as the idea that someone else is an evil-doer
Robert Lynd (Born this day 1879)
A man who lives, not by what he loves but what he hates, is a sick man
Once you permit those who are convinced of their own superior rightness to censor and silence and suppress those who hold contrary opinions, just at that moment the citadel has been surrendered
Archibald MacLeish (Died this day 1982)
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Wowsers
May 12, 2010 9:50:14 GMT 10
Post by Tamrin on May 12, 2010 9:50:14 GMT 10
Extremes, though contrary, have the like effects. Extreme heat kills, and so extreme cold: extreme love breeds satiety, and so extreme hatred; and too violent rigor tempts chastity, as does too much license
George Chapman (Died this day 1634)
Asceticism is the trifling of an enthusiast with his power, a puerile coquetting with his selfishness or his vanity, in the absence of any sufficiently great object to employ the first or overcome the last
Florence Nightingale (Born this day 1820)
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Wowsers
May 29, 2010 9:00:46 GMT 10
Post by Tamrin on May 29, 2010 9:00:46 GMT 10
A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things
Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable
G.K. Chesterton (Born this day 1874)
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