Wit & Wisdom
Mark Twain, Author Saki, Poet Edwin Markham, Actor Leslie Nielsen, Charlotte Brontë, Robert Louis Stevenson, World War II hero Henry A. Courtney
“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear—not absence of fear.”
Mark Twain, quoted in Entrepreneur.com
“A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation.”
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Author Saki, quoted in the London Guardian
“Defeat may serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out.”
Poet Edwin Markham, quoted in the Beckley, W.Va., Register-Herald
“Doing nothing is very hard to do … you never know when you’re
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finished.”
Actor Leslie Nielsen, quoted in the Tulsa World
“Better to be without logic than without feeling.”
Charlotte Brontë, quoted in the Associated Press
“Wine is bottled poetry.”
Robert Louis Stevenson, quoted in the Dayton, Ohio, Daily News
“Finding a way to live the simple life today is a man’s most
complicated task.”
World War II hero Henry A. Courtney, quoted in Forbes.com
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