"though the wide universe is full of good,……" — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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• Politeness and civility are the best capital ever invested in business. Large stores, gilt signs, flaming advertisements, will all prove… — P T Barnum
• Forgetfulness - a gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience. — Ambrose Bierce
• There are people who have never been taught anything, and know everything, have never been anywhere, and understand everything, have… — Sholom Aleichem
• What gift has providence bestowed on man that is so dear to him as his children? — Marcus Tullius Cicero
• There is no effect more disproportionate to its cause than the happiness bestowed by a small compliment. — Robert Breault
• Prayer is not appointed for the furnishing of God with the knowledge of what we need, but it is designed… — Arthur W. Pink
• That praises are without reason lavished on the dead, and that the honours due only to are paid to antiquity,… — Ben Jonson
• One set of messages of the society we live in is: Consume. Grow. Do what you want. Amuse yourselves. The… — Susan Sontag
• Liberty is one of the most precious gifts which heaven has bestowed on man; with it we cannot compare the… — Miguel de Cervantes
• It seems that nature, which has so wisely disposed our bodily organs with a view to our happiness, has also… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
• In the beginning of his human life man was embryonic in the world of the matrix. There he received capacity… — Abdu'l-Bahá
• I remember watching Mel Gibson on some show once, and he was being asked about his belief in the afterlife.… — Hugh Laurie

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