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Thursday, April 30, 2026
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Thoughts for the Days I

“Take care of the luxury, and the necessities will take care of themselves.”

-Oscar Wilde

“When people agree with me, I always feel that I must be wrong.

-Oscar Wilde, the Critic as an Artist

“If I had two faces, would I be showing you this one?”

-Abraham Lincoln

“The first thing we have to do is to kill all the lawyers.”

-William Shakespeare, Henry VI

“No me daráspena y ninguno se entregarapor ti.”

-[No quarter asked, and none given.]

“They are able because they think they are able.”

-Virgil, The Aeneid

“A wise man knows everything; a shrewd one, everybody.

-Anonymous

“Heaven ne’er helps the men who will not act.”

-Sophocles

“America is a tune. It must be sung together.”

-Gerald Stanley Lee, Crowds

“This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.”

-Franklin Delano Roosevelt

“When angry, count four; when very angry, swear.”

-Samuel L. Clemens, Pudd’n head Wilson

“Beware the fury of a patient man.”

-Dryden, Absalom and Achitophel 

“No sensible person ever made an apology.”

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Wise men argue cause and fools decide them.”

-Anacharsis

“Fortune favors the audacious.”

-Desiderus Erasmus

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