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I always enjoy aphorisms, especially the humorous country type. They was a makin' more racket than a bunch of skeletons pitching a hissy fit on a tin roof!

Humor. A book of my grandmother Catharine's that I illustrated and set to the music of Sousa that came out the same year as her book, 1908. Catharine was the first female newspaper publisher in Colorado, and the daughter of General Henry L. Burnett. Her earlier book, "Moods and Tenses," is in the Special Collections of Brown University.

“The only freedom deserving the name, is that of pursuing our own good in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it. Each is the proper guardian of his own health, whether bodily, or mental and spiritual. Mankind are greater gainers by suffering each other to live as seems good to themselves, than by compelling each to live as seems good to the rest.” —John Stuart Mill Work as if you were to live 100 Years, Pray as if you were to die To-morrow. Benjamin...

Friedrich Nietzsche - 1844-1900 A philosopher, a prophet, a poet, a philosophical poet, Nietzsche has been many things to many people. He has even been turned into a militarist, a chauvinist and a blond beast by the heavy-handed manipulation of selected passages. When he said, “Be hard,” he meant be hard on your own weakness, slackness, indolence -- and he took his own advice heroically. He was undoubtedly fascinated by such figures as Caesar, Cesare Borgia and Napoleon, as we all are, for what they had done for themselves; but his enduring heroes were Goethe and, above all, Socrates, the...