Mark Twain On Love's Slow Growth Through Marriage

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  Michael Masterson On Earning The Right To Criticize

  August 21, 2019 · 1 min read

  “You earn the right to criticize someone only after you have demonstrated the willingness to help someone.” – Michael Masterson

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  John Adams, in a letter to his wife, Abigail, after signing the Declaration of Independence

  July 4, 2023 · 1 min read

  “I am apt to believe that it [the signing] will be celebrated by succeeding generations as the great anniversary festival. It ought to be solemnized with pomp and parade, with shows, games, sports, guns…

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  James Russell Lowell On Creativity And Making

  June 11, 2022 · 1 min read

  “Creativity is not the finding of a thing, but the making something out of it after it is found.” – James Russell Lowell

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  P.J. O'Rourke On Free Will And Blame

  August 2, 2019 · 1 min read

  “One of the annoying things about believing in free will and individual responsibility is the difficulty of finding somebody to blame your problems on.” – P.J. O’Rourke

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  Charles Baudelaire On Agreement Through Misunderstanding — August 28, 2024

  August 28, 2024 · 1 min read

  “It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree.” – Charles Baudelaire

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