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"He that visits the sick in hopes of a legacy, but is never so friendly in all other cases, I look upon him as being no better than a raven that watches a weak sheep only to peck out its eyes."
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

"No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets."
Edward Abbey

Do something every day that you don't want to do this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.
Mark Twain

Travel is educational it teaches you how to get rid of money in a hurry.
S Barry Lipkin

"The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of continuing to be a nation at all would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities."
Theodore Roosevelt

"We can all be angels to one another. We can choose to obey the still small stirring within, the little whisper that says, 'Go. Ask. Reach out. Be an answer to someone's plea. You have a part to play. Have faith.' We can decide to risk that He is indeed there, watching, caring, cherishing us as we love and accept love. The world will be a better place for it. And wherever they are, the angels will dance."
Joan Wester Anderson

"It was a dark and stormy night the rain fell in torrents--except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets (for it is in London that our scene lies), rattling along the housetops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness."
Edward BulwerLytton

"I'd like to be the sort of friend that you have been to me, I'd like to be the help that you've been always glad to be I'd like to mean as much to you each minute of the day, as you have meant, old friend of mine, to me along the way."
Edgar Albert Guest

The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.
Abraham Lincoln

"This body is not a home but an inn, and that only briefly. - Epistulae ad Lucilium"
Lucius Annaeus Seneca