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To live content with small means, to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion, to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not rich, to study hard, think quietly, talk gently, act frankly, to listen to stars and … Continue reading
The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit. - Nelson Henderson
A birth control pill for men, that’s fair. It makes more sense to take the bullets out of the gun than to wear a bulletproof vest. - Anon
I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment, while I was hoeing in a village garden, and I felt that I was more distinguished by that circumstance that I should have been by any epaulet I … Continue reading
Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation. - Oscar Wilde
People must have renounced, it seems to me, all natural intelligence to dare to advance that animals are but animated machines…. It appears to me, besides, that [such people] can never have observed with attention the character of animals, not … Continue reading
Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow-creatures is amusing in itself. - James Anthony Froude
Personally, I would not give a fig for any man’s religion whose horse, cat and dog do not feel its benefits. Life in any form is our perpetual responsibility. - S. Parkes Cadman
Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret. - Ambrose Bierce
Do not teach your children never to be angry; teach them how to be angry. - Lyman Abbott