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In honor of the day I"ll quote an Irishman.
"One man with a dream, at pleasure,
Shall go forth and conquer a crown;
And three with a new song's measure
Can trample an empire down." (A.W.E. O'Shaughnessy)
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And for all the English, many of whom became Anglo-Irish or "more Irish than the Irish" and helped their adopted land to become a Republic:
"It is not enough to do good. One must do it in the right way."
(John, Vicount Morley)
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And one more, to show there are no hard feelings ... one of my favorites of all times - also by Morley :
"You have not converted a man because you have silenced him."
Happy St. Patrick's Day
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Will Durant ( ICLIU but I think I'm quoting it correctly)
" Nothing is often a good thing to do and always a good thing to say."
(I KNOW this quote, but sometimes forget to think about it until just AFTER I hit the "send" or "Continue" key.)
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Carpal Tunnel
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Will Durant's "The Story of Civilization" is written so well that it is very enjoyable. And while I don't remember the epigram you quote, there are many equally worth quoting contained in that marvelous eleven volume set. I can't imagine how he was able to do so much research, organize the material, and still have time enough left to write it so superlatively well.
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He had the help of a good, and clever woman.
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My failure to give proper credit to Ariel Durant was a grievous error. She too must have been something special, or otherwise it would be possible to tell her contributions from his, which I cannot.
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Make the most of yourself...for that is all there is of you.
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PJ O'Rourke is probably the ONLY author today who can have me laughing so hard that my sides hurt.
You haven't read Patrick McManus, then?
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Hmm. . . some of my favorite quotes right now, a rather eclectic group:
"A wise man talks because he has something to say, a fool because he has to say something." - Plato
"Ocean, n. A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man -- who has no gills." - Ambrose Bierce
"Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." - E.B. White
"In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity." - Albert Einstein
"To thine own self be true" - Shakespeare, Hamlet
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Dear God
Please help me to get up ... I can fall down by myself ...
A Jewish Saying
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An optimist believes we live in the best of all possible worlds - the pessimist is quite certain about that.
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