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Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.
Marcus Aurelius

"I'm growing old, I delight in the past."

Henri Matisse

The past should be a springboard, not a hammock.


- Ivern Ball

Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by his heart, and his friends can only read the title.
Virginia Woolf

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I liked the first one so much I'm not going to delete it, but here is how the game moves on, with

And how are you going to make education easy? You might as well try to build an athlete by keeping him in a hammock with cream puffs and beer.”

Edgar Pangborn

In my opinion, most of the great men of the past were only there for the beer --the wealth, prestige and grandeur that went with the power.


- A. J. P. Taylor

She had lost the art of conversation but not, unfortunately, the power of speech.
George Bernard Shaw

Experience is a private, and a very largely speechless affair.


- James Baldwin

Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames.
Thomas Moore

Superstition sets the whole world in flames; philosophy quenches them.


- Voltaire

If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking.

Lyndon B. Johnson