“Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.”
– Abraham Lincoln
A little of this. A little of that.
“Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.”
– Abraham Lincoln
“Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.”
– Voltaire
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Two policemen call the station on the radio:
“Hello. Is that the Sarge?”
“Yes.”
“We have a case here. A woman has shot her husband for stepping on the floor
she has just mopped clean.”
“Have you arrested the woman?”
“No sir. The floor is still wet.”
“As the soft yield of water cleaves obstinate stone,
So to yield with life solves the insolvable: To yield,
I have learned, is to come back again.”
– Lao Tzu