I Have One Great Fear In My Heart, That One Day When They The Whites Of South Africa Have Turned To Loving, They Will Find We The Blacks Are Turned To Hating. ~ Alan Stewart Paton You Grow Up The Day You Have Your First Real Laugh -- At Yourself. ~ Ethel Barrymoore It Was A Cold, Bright Day In April And The Clocks Were Striking Thirteen. ~ George Orwell, "1984", first sentence Think To Yourself That Every Day Is Your Last The Hour To Which You Do Not Look Forward Will Come As A Welcome Surprise. ~ Horace It Is Not Growing Like A Tree In Bulk Doth Make Man Better Be Or Standing Long An Oak, Three Hundred Year, To Fall A Log At Last, Dry, Bald, And Sere, A Lily Of A Day Is Fairer In May Although It Fall And Die That Night, It Was The Plant Of Flower And Light, In Small Proportions We Just Beauties See And In Short Measures, Life May Perfect Be. ~ Benjamin Johnson Christmas The Very Word Brings Joy To Our Hearts. No Matter How We May Dread The Rush, The Long Christmas Lists For Gifts And Cards To Be Bought And Given--when Christmas Day Comes There Is Still The Same Warm Feeling We Had As Children, The Same Warmth That Enfolds Our Hearts And Our Homes. ~ Joan Winmill Brown What, To The American Slave, Is Your Fourth Of July I Answer A Day That Reveals To Him, More Than All Other Days Of The Year, The Gross Injustices And Cruelty To Which He Is The Constant Victim. To Him Your Celebration Is A Sham. ~ Frederick Douglas To Suppose, As We All Suppose, That We Could Be Rich And Not Behave As The Rich Behave, Is Like Supposing That We Could Drink All Day And Keep Absolutely Sober. ~ Logan Pearsall Smith, Afterthoughts (1931) "In the World" It Is Better To Live For One Day As A Tiger Than To Live For A Thousand Years As A Sheep. ~ Tibetan Prove Statistics Show That We Lose More Fools On This Day Than On All Other Days Of The Year Put Together. This Proves, By The Numbers Left In Stock, That One Fourth Of July Per Year Is Now Inadequate, The Country Has Grown So. ~ Mark Twain Celebrate The Happiness That Friends Are Always Giving, Make Every Day A Holiday And Celebrate Just Living. ~ Amanda Bradley I Fear Nothing So Much As A Man Who Is Witty All Day Long. ~ Madame de Sevigne
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