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If you've never been

hated by your child,

you've never been a

parent.

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-Bette Davis

pablo picasso

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We will never find

comfort or assurance

by looking within.

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-Charles Spurgeon

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Everybody is ignorant,

only on different

subjects.

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-Will Rogers

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Service is the rent that

we pay for our room here

on earth.

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-Lord Halifax

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As a cure for worrying,

work is better than

whiskey.

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-Thomas Edison

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Communism is like one

big phone company.

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-Lenny Bruce

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We know too much,

and are convinced

of too little.

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-T. S. Eliot

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Pooh?
Yes Piglet?
I’ve been thinking.
That’s a very good habit to get into Piglet.

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-A. A. Milne

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Make all you can; save

all you can; give all

you can.

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-John Wesley

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First we make our habits,

then our habits make us.

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-Charles Noble

The future is purchased

by the present.

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-Samuel Butler

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The average dog is a

nicer person than the

average person.

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-Andy Rooney

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Play is really the work

of childhood.

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-Fred Rogers

wow and wow and wow and wow
Anybody who can resist going to the post office and grabbing a sheet of these deserves to be buried alive in junk mail. Admittedly, I'm a lover of envelope art. And what an easy way to dress your mail. Just when I thought the USPS had gotten a little bored with the whole "vision thing" in regard to stamps....wham!
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Charles and Ray Eames were a husband and wife design team best known for their work in architecture, furniture, sculpture and film. This commemorative sheet of 16 different designs (and a free sticker right in the middle) is the creative work of Derry Noyes of Washington, DC. It's only $6.72 and goes on sale today. Need I say more?

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I love these little people;

and it is not a slight thing

when they, who are so fresh

from God, love us.

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-Charles Dickens

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It is a weighty thing,

weighty and dangerous,
to be created in the

image of God.

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-Michael Horton

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Electricity is actually made up of

extremely tiny particles called

electrons, that you cannot see with

the naked eye unless you have been

drinking.

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-Dave Barry

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A celebrity is a person

who works hard all his

life to become well known,

then wears dark glasses

to avoid being recognized.

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-Fred Allen

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Those who'll play with

cats must expect to be

scratched.

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-Cervantes

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I know a lot of morning people

and I know a lot of night people

but I have yet to meet a late

afternoon person.

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-Douglas Coupland

As heart stamps go this one's pretty nice. It was designed

by Ethel Kessler of Bethesda, Maryland and goes on sale

today. Comes in a booklet of twenty for $8.40. There's a

flurry of new stamps appearing this month. Wait till you

see what's coming up on the 17th. I'll keep you posted.

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Oh, give us the man who

sings at his work.

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-Thomas Carlyle

julia kay

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Woe to those who are

wise in their own eyes.

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-Isaiah 5:21

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It has been my invariable

experience that the company

of a mere child is infinite-

ly preferable to that of a

mere adult.

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-Fran Lebowitz

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Life can only be understood
backwards,
but it must be lived
forwards.
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-Soren Kierkegaard

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Sometimes I get lonesome

right in the middle of a

crowd.

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-Elvis Presley

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What is youth except a

man or a woman before it

is fit to be seen?

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-Evelyn Waugh

eleanor grosch

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Oh, there once was a puffin

Just the shape of a muffin,

And he lived on an island

In the bright blue sea.

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-Florence Page Jaques

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to see the whole poem click here

to see more cool stuff from eleanor grosch

just click on the puffin.

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Go to the ant, O sluggard;

consider her ways, and be

wise.

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-Proverbs 6:6