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Kissing don't last: cookery do.

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-George Meredith

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Familiarity breeds contempt.

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-Aesop

Here she is. The Amelia Earhart of the Howard

family celebrating her 25th birthday on the isle

of Japan. Who knows how long she'll be there?

At least a year or two. Any well-wishers may

leave their kind regards in the peanut gallery

below. We love this girl. She introduced herself

to us this day in 1984. We had her name all

ready and waiting for her: Brae Lawren.

Her sweet charms and rare beauty have

captivated me from the start. By the grace and

blessing of Jesus I get to be her papa. Happy

Birthday Brae.

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We've finally got some fairly nice decorative postage to go

with the latest postal rate. This group of five lighthouse

stamps is now available on a sheet of 20 for $8.80. Why is

a sheet preferable to a booklet? Well, I'll tell you. Because

the serrated edge is on all four sides of the stamp. If you

care about your mail's appearance, this is a plus. Try one of

these on a darker envelope and see just how spiffy it looks.

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-Damien

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A bird in the hand is

worth two in the bush.

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-Benjamin Franklin

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Let anyone who thinks

he stands take heed

lest he fall.

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-1 Corinthians 10:12

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A man doesn’t automatically get my respect.

He has to get down in the dirt and beg for it.

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-Jack Handey

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We either make ourselves happy or miserable.

The amount of work is the same.
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-Carlos Castenada

albrecht durer

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To feel deeply you

have to think deeply.

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-C. J. Mahaney

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I have given two cousins to war

and I stand ready to sacrifice

my wife’s brother.

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-Artemeus Ward (1834 – 1867)

8The annual yield of a coffee tree

is about one pound.

8Adolph Hitler was Time magazine's

Man of the Year for 1938.

8Earth's circumference is just

under 25,000 miles.

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I figure there's heaven, purgatory, hell

and the blues. I've always been in the

blues, just reaching up for hell.

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-Townes Van Zandt

richard scarry

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Do not be haughty,

but associate with

the lowly.

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-Romans 12:16

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Life ain’t all beer and skittles.
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-Horace Greeley

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Don’t let it end like this.

Tell them I said something.

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–Pancho Villa (last words)

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I don't like to repeat gossip so

listen carefully the first time.
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-Joan Rivers

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If you can find something

everyone agrees on, it's

wrong.

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-Mo Udall

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Integrity is so perishable in the

summer months of success.

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-Vanessa Redgrave

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'Taint worthwhile to wear a day

all out before it comes.

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-Sarah Orne Jewett

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Establish the work of our

hands.

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-Psalm 90:17

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Dreams are the touchstones

of our character.

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-Henry David Thoreau

happy 500th birthday john calvin

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You must submit to suffering

in order to discover true joy.

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-John Calvin

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Alas, how deeply painful is all

payment.

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-Lord Byron

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In summer, the song sings itself.

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-William Carlos Williams

evan and sarah have decided to marry.

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Come, let's be a comfortable couple and

take care of each other! How glad we shall

be, that we have somebody we are fond

of always, to talk to and sit with.

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~Charles Dickens

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Dream as if you have forever;

live as if you only have today.

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-James Dean

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Weeping may endure

for a night,

but joy comes in the morning.

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-Psalm 30:5

warren kimble

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A government of laws, and

not of men.

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-John Adams

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The image is one thing and the

human being is another. It's very

hard to live up to an image.

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-Elvis Presley

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The nine most terrifying words

in the English language are,

“I'm from the government

and I'm here to help.”

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-Ronald Reagan

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Laughter is the sun that drives

winter from the human face.

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-Victor Hugo