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Wiserafter90

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Career mostly as an antiquarian bookseller, retired at age 86 after 64 years. Restored circa 1815 home. Avid reader, collector of quotes, lover of languages and history. Happily married for a second time after 67 years with my first love. 93 now.

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Wiserafter90 @wiserafter90.bsky.social · Dec 16

#Quotesfrommyreading

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Wiserafter90 @wiserafter90.bsky.social · 4h

"If you cannot read all your books, at any rate handle, or as it were, fondle them... Let them be your friends." Winston Churchill. "You don't stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing. Michael Pritchard.

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Wiserafter90 @wiserafter90.bsky.social · 1d

"A man, after he has brushed off the dust and chips of his life, will have left only the hard, clean question: Was it good or was it evil? Have I done well--or ill? John Steinbeck. " The more we learn the more we realize how little we know." Buckminster Fuller.

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Wiserafter90 @wiserafter90.bsky.social · 2d

"Just living is not enough, said the butterfly. One must have sunshine, freedom and a little sunshine." Hans Christian Anderson. "The wounds and blows inflicted by men... render them less able to bear the afflictions of heat and cold," Theophrastus.

Wiserafter90 @wiserafter90.bsky.social · 3d

"My best friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read." Abraham Lincoln. "Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited while imagination embraces the world." Albert Einstein. "An alcoholic is someone you don't like, who drinks as much as you do." Dylan Thomas.

Wiserafter90 @wiserafter90.bsky.social · 4d

"Character--the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life--is the source from which self-respect springs." Joan Didion. "Everyone will have noticed with what skill a coin let fall upon the ground runs to hide itself." Victor Hugo.

Wiserafter90 @wiserafter90.bsky.social · 5d

"There is nothing more comfortable than a caterpillar and nothing more made for love than a butterfly. We need dresses that crawl and dresses that fly." Coco Chanel. "Plan for the future, because that's where you are going to spend the rest of your life." Mark Twain.

Wiserafter90 @wiserafter90.bsky.social · 6d

"I have no right, by anything I do or say, to demean a human being in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him; it is what he thinks of himself. To undermine a man's self-respect is a sin." Antoine de Saint-Exupery. "Read in order to live." Gustave Flaubert.

Wiserafter90 @wiserafter90.bsky.social · 7d

"There is something about death that is comforting. The thought that you could die tomorrow frees you to appreciate your life now." Angelina Jolie. "If you would persuade, you must appeal to interest rather than intellect." Benjamin Franklin.

Wiserafter90 @wiserafter90.bsky.social · 8d

"Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it." Robert Frost. "The fundamental cause of trouble in the world today is that the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt." Bertrand Russell

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Wiserafter90 @wiserafter90.bsky.social · 9d

"The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech." George Bernard Shaw. " Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind." Dr. Seuss (Theodore Geisel)

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Wiserafter90 @wiserafter90.bsky.social · 10d

"As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand." Josh Billings. "You simply cannot hang a millionaire in America." Bourke Cockran. "It is the job that is never started that takes longest to finish." J. R. R. Tolkien.

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Wiserafter90 @wiserafter90.bsky.social · 11d

"Great minds have purposes; little minds have wishes. Little minds are subdued by misfortunes; great minds rise above them." Washington Irving. "I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals." Winston Churchill.

Wiserafter90 @wiserafter90.bsky.social · 11d

We are told that we are a government of law and not of men, yet time after time the will of men has set aside the Constitution.

Wiserafter90 @wiserafter90.bsky.social · 11d

Through a long and torturous history the Supreme Court has veered from one extreme to the other, and the challenges continue to this day.

Wiserafter90 @wiserafter90.bsky.social · 11d

With respect for our rights we honor the wisdom of the framers of the Constitution. They had no illusions that they were writing a perfect document. They knew from the beginning that it would need amending, and they made provision for that.

Wiserafter90 @wiserafter90.bsky.social · 13d

Since then, many more attempts have been made to slay our children. Yet leaders remain divided arguing, spreading conspiracies, or turning away.

Wiserafter90 @wiserafter90.bsky.social · 14d

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Instead of a quotation today, I need to share something personal — and deeply serious.

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Wiserafter90 @wiserafter90.bsky.social · 14d

"Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once... it seems to me most strange that men should fear, seeing that death, a necessary end, will come when it will come." William Shakespeare.

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Wiserafter90 @wiserafter90.bsky.social · 16d

"So many people see work as such a burden and that's such a sad thing. They think 'How wonderful when I retire and stop working forever,' never realizing that when work ends, a big part of life ends, and that to retire completely is to die." Katharine Hepburn.

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Wiserafter90 @wiserafter90.bsky.social · 17d

"Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get--only what you are expecting to give--which is everything." Katharine Hepburn. "Carry out a random act of kindness... safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you." Princess Diana.

Wiserafter90 @wiserafter90.bsky.social · 18d

"Drought: It is so dry that Baptists are baptizing by sprinkling, Methodists are using wet wipes, Presbyterians are giving out rain checks, and Catholics are praying for the wine to be turned into water." " Lead me not into temptation... especially old bookstores." Anon.

Wiserafter90 @wiserafter90.bsky.social · 18d

Too late! You've got me hooked.

Wiserafter90 @wiserafter90.bsky.social · 19d

"Love is the extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real." Iris Murdoch. "Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore/ that's what parents were created for." Ogden Nash. "Nature is what we are put on this earth to rise above." Katharine Hepburn.

Wiserafter90 @wiserafter90.bsky.social · 20d

"... How dare you call yourselves patriots and heroes? There is nothing patriotic in hating your country, or pretending that you love your country but despise your government." Bill Clinton. "We need... patriots who express their faith in this country by working to improve it." Hubert Humphrey.

Wiserafter90 @wiserafter90.bsky.social · 20d

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