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• Killing

  By aaforringer on June 26, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

    It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets. Voltaire François-Marie Arouet ( 21 November 1694 – 30 May 1778), known by his nom de plume Voltaire  was a French Enlightenment writer, historian… Read More ›

• Inspiration

  By aaforringer on June 21, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  Any working composer or painter or sculptor will tell you that inspiration comes at the eighth hour of labour rather than as a bolt out of the blue. We have to get our vanities and our preconceptions out of the… Read More ›

• Fears

  By aaforringer on June 19, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  Never take counsel of your fears.   Stonewall Jackson Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson (1824-63) was a war hero and one of the South’s most successful generals during the American Civil War (1861-65). After a difficult childhood, he graduated from the U.S. Military… Read More ›

• Comfy

  By aaforringer on June 14, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  A house that does not have one warm, comfy chair in it is soulless.   May Sarton May Sarton is the pen name of Eleanore Marie Sarton (May 3, 1912 – July 16, 1995), an American poet, novelist and memoirist.