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"If of thy mortal goodd thou art bereft, And from thy slender store Two loaves alone are left, Sell one, and with the dole, Buy hyacinths to feed thY soul."

-Mashii Eddin Saadi.

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"This may be the world's last summer, No use bothering the Plumber."

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"Avast there ! BelaY Madam ! Please call a halt. Don't get snared in temptation's meshes; You shouldn't be suPPing That chocolate malt, Don't you know that's the Pause'that refeshes?"

-Don Glaze.

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Montaigne said that fashion was a tax placed on the vanity of the rich, by the industry of the poor.

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Our sense of humor is the only weapon we possess that is strong enough to overthrow self-pity.-Maude Taylor' *** x< * *

It is strange that men will talk of miracles, revelations, inspiration, and the like as things past-while love remains.-Thoreau.

Perhaps it would be a good idea, fantastic as it sounds, to mufile every telephone, stop every motor, and halt all activity for an hour some day, to give people a chance to ponder for a few minutes on what it is all about, why they are living, and what they really want.-James Truslow Adams'

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Thousands of years ago Mencius wrote: "If you love men and they are unfriendly, look into your love; if you rule men and they are unruly, look into your wisdom; if you are courteous to them and they do not respond, look into your courtesy; if what you do is vain, look always within." ***

Jerome K. Jerome wrote in his "Three Men In A Boat"; "Let your boat of life be light, packed only with what you need-a homely home, simple pleasures, one or two friends worth the name, someone to love you' a cat, a dog, a pipe or two, enough to eat and enough to wear and a little more than enough to drink; for thirst is a dangerous thing."

Saying of the Druid Taliesan: "If ye identify yourselves with faith, hope and integrity, with generosity and good will and courage, howsoever small your beginnings, ye shall have them and their increase. They are yours. They are you. Ye shall unlock the gates of wisdom and all knowledge." * * {.

A thinking friend writes this column: "I beg to differ with some of the accepted versions or ideas of death. You write in one place-'These heroes died for us: they sleep, each in the windowless Palace of Rest.' Why windowless? I like to think of it as a place of many windows-a broadening of the horizon-the opening of many doors-the 'Pass on, Brother'to the highroad of the greatest adventure ever dreamed." Guess all I can say is "Amen" to that amendment

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Dr. Thomas J. McCarthy wrote: "Our society is giving increasing evidence that it is concerned, not so much with principles, as it is with percentages. We live in an age of polls, and the opinions and judgments of men are being measured today, not so much in terms of their rightness and wrongness, as they are in terms of the numbers that can be marshalled behind them. We have been encouraged to believe that if 80 or 90 per cent of the people favor an individual program, then the right is on that side and it is useless or of little avail to be numbered among the protesting 10 or 20 per cent. Numbers, of themselves, mean nothing. We should not be deceived by them. Rightness or wrongness is not bound up with mathematics, but with morals'tt

John Amherst Sexon said: "What is freedom? It is man's highest aspiration, man's brightest hope, the love of God, the pursuit of happiness, the acceptance of responsibilities, the exercise of our just rights, a commitment to the Democratic Way of Life, the dedication of one's life to the cause of Liberty and Justice for all mankind." {. * *

When you hear or read demagogic words concerning the "ill-clad, ill-housed, ill-fed" of our nation, remember that to be poor has also its compensations. Remember that most of the intellectual giants of history have been nursed at the breast of poverty. Remember that most of those giants, had they suddenly become rich, would almost certainly have likewise become barren of the signs of genius. For genius is a thousand times more likely to be found in a hut or a hovel than in a mansion. Most of those who have climbed highest on the ladder of true fame, started at the lowest round. In the midst of toil; in the din and