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• Trouble

  By aaforringer on February 4, 2025 • ( 0 )

  If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn’t sit for a month.   Theodore Roosevelt With the assassination of President McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt, not quite 43, became the youngest President in the… Read More ›

• Castles

  By aaforringer on January 30, 2025 • ( 0 )

  If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.  Henry David Thoreau Henry David Thoreau (July 12, 1817 – May 6, 1862) was an American naturalist,… Read More ›

• Old

  By aaforringer on January 28, 2025 • ( 0 )

  

  To me – old age is always ten years older than I am.   Bernard Baruch Bernard Mannes Baruch (August 19, 1870 – June 20, 1965) was an American financier and statesman.  After amassing a fortune on the New York Stock Exchange, he impressed President Woodrow… Read More ›

• Late

  By aaforringer on January 23, 2025 • ( 0 )

  

  It is never too late to be what you might have been.   George Eliot Mary Ann Evans (22 November 1819 – 22 December 1880; alternatively Mary Anne or Marian[1][2]), known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist, poet, journalist, translator, and one… Read More ›