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Old 05-25-2015, 06:57 AM
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Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
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Old 05-25-2015, 03:29 PM
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Here is an early version of love thy neighbour;

"If I am not for myself, who is for me?
And if I am only for myself, what am I?
If not now, when?"

Rabbi Hillel
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Old 05-27-2015, 08:42 AM
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- H. G. Wells, 1866 - 1946
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Old 05-27-2015, 10:58 AM
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Whose to judge?
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Old 05-29-2015, 07:54 AM
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"The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all."

-- Gilbert Keith Chesterton, 1874 - 1936


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Old 05-29-2015, 10:47 AM
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"I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you."

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

...and what I put on the front of her 80th birthday card for this morning.
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Old 05-29-2015, 11:02 AM
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"I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you."

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

...and what I put on the front of her 80th birthday card for this morning.
Please give her my best birthday wishes, Rob.
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Old 05-29-2015, 11:05 AM
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"I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you."

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

...and what I put on the front of her 80th birthday card for this morning.
Give Florence out best, Rob.

Love, Patty and Bob
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Old 05-30-2015, 02:45 PM
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Old 05-30-2015, 04:48 PM
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