|  |  | L. Frank Baum |  | Folklore, legends, myths, and fairy tales have followed childhood through the ages, for every healthy youngster has a wholesome and instinctive love for stories fantastic, marvelous, and manifestly unreal. Discuss
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| | | Bret Harte | Now, I hold it is not decent for a scientific gent To say another is an ass-at least, to all intent; Nor should the individual who happens to be meant Reply by heaving rocks at him to any great extent. |  | Read more... |  |
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| | Bret Harte | Now, I hold it is not decent for a scientific gent To say another is an ass-at least, to all intent; Nor should the individual who happens to be meant Reply by heaving rocks at him to any great extent. Discuss |  | Read more... |  |
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| | George Eliot | Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world. Discuss |  | Read more... |  |
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| | Washington Irving | When friends grow cold, and the converse of intimates languishes into vapid civility and commonplace, these [books] only continue the unaltered countenance of happier days, and cheer us with that true friendship which never deceived hope nor deserted sorrow. |  | Read more... |  |
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| | Washington Irving | When friends grow cold, and the converse of intimates languishes into vapid civility and commonplace, these [books] only continue the unaltered countenance of happier days, and cheer us with that true friendship which never deceived hope nor deserted sorrow. Discuss |  | Read more... |  |
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| | | Joseph Conrad | It is very difficult to be wholly joyous or wholly sad on this earth. The comic, when it is human, soon takes upon itself a face of pain; and some of our griefs...have their source in weaknesses which must be recognized with smiling compassion as the common inheritance of us all. Discuss |  | Read more... |  |
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| | | | L. Frank Baum | Folklore, legends, myths, and fairy tales have followed childhood through the ages, for every healthy youngster has a wholesome and instinctive love for stories fantastic, marvelous, and manifestly unreal. Discuss |  | Read more... |  |
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|  |  |  | |  I have always felt the spirit of loving kindness here. Thank You!
 I have always felt the spirit of loving kindness here. Thank You! February 2015 ~ K + D
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| |  |  |  | |  Thanks for the peace and tranquility which we will miss. Such wonderful energy and healing, from the waters to the massages, from the ambiance to the fellowship with the owners. I leave with your love still singing in my heart.
- Miriam B., Twisp, WA
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| | To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession, to establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one's own.
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