READING

La Lectura es el viaje de los que no pueden tomar el tren. Β  Β  Β   – F. Croisset

(Reading is the journey of those who cannot take the train.)

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Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested . . . . Β  Β  Β  Β   – Sir Francis BaconΒ  β€œOf Studies”

I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book. Β  Β  – Groucho Marx

It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help it.Β  Β  – Oscar Wilde

LAUGHTER

When we laugh, a sort of temporary anesthesia is released within us that blocks the pain as our attention is diverted.Β  Β   – Chuck Swindoll in Five Meaningful Minutes a Day

I love people who make me laugh. I honestly think it’s the thing I like most, to laugh. It cures a multitude of ills. It’s probably the most important thing in a person.   – Audrey Hepburn

CHINAΒ  Β 

Friendship is delicate as [china], once broken it can be fixed but there will always be cracks.Β  Β  – Waqar Ahmed

Pitcher Broken

It’s a wise husband who will buy his wife such fine china that she won’t trust him to wash the dishes.Β  Β  – Honoré de Balzac

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I’ll love you, dear, I’ll love you till China and Africa meet and the river jumps over the mountain and salmon sing in the street. Β  Β   – W. H. Auden

We have a week and a half left of work and we are like delicate china speeding toward a brick wall. Sounds fun, huh? Β  Β  – Jennifer Anniston

Start living now. Stop saving the good china for that special occasion. Stop withholding your love until that special person materializes. Every day you are alive is a special occasion. Every minute, every breath, is a gift from God.Β  Β  Β 

Β  Β  Β  Β  Β  Β  Β  Β  Β   – Mary Manin Morrissey

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