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• Understanding

  By aaforringer on March 14, 2019 • ( 0 )

    The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.   Rudyard Kipling Joseph Rudyard Kipling (30 December 1865 – 18 January 1936) was an English journalist, short-story writer, poet, and novelist. He was born in India, which inspired much… Read More ›

• Truth

  By aaforringer on March 12, 2019 • ( 0 )

  Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay;  falsehood by haste and uncertainty.   Tacitus Publius (or Gaius) Cornelius Tacitus (56 – 120 AD) was a senator and a historian of the Roman Empire. The surviving portions of his two major works—the Annals and the Histories—examine the reigns of the emperors Tiberius, Claudius, Nero, and those who reigned in the Year of the… Read More ›

• Poor

  By aaforringer on March 7, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  The real tragedy of the poor is the poverty of their aspirations.   Adam Smith Adam Smith FRSA (16 June [O.S. 5 June] 1723[3] – 17 July 1790) was a Scottish economist, philosopher and author as well as a moral philosopher, a pioneer of political economy and a key figure during the Scottish Enlightenment.[4] Smith… Read More ›

• Working

  By aaforringer on March 5, 2019 • ( 0 )

  I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.   H. L. Mencken Henry Louis Mencken (September 12, 1880 – January 29, 1956) was an American journalist, essayist, satirist, cultural critic and scholar of American English.[1] He commented widely on… Read More ›