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Wiserafter90 @wiserafter90.bsky.social · 6h

"A well-composed book is a magic carpet on which we are wafted to a world that we cannot enter in any other way." Caroline Gordon. "...books and prints and dance and song are not categories of life, sweets to be savored, they are grains in the very Bread of life and sustenance for the journey."

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Wiserafter90 @wiserafter90.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

"The best single test of a nation's culture remains what it has always been since the days of Gutenberg--its attitude towards books." Alan Nevins. "A major difference between death and taxes is that death doesn't get worse every time the politicians meet." Wiserafter90.

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Wiserafter90 @wiserafter90.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

"Treat the other man's faith gently; it is all he has to believe with. His mind was created for his own thoughts, not yours or mine." Henry S. Haskins. "A conference is a gathering of people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done." Fred Allen.

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Wiserafter90 @wiserafter90.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

"At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to thank with deep gratitude those who have lighted the flame within us." Attributed to Albert. Schweitzer. "Gray hair is a sign of age, not of wisdom." Anon.

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Wiserafter90 @wiserafter90.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

"Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those I love, I can: all of them make me laugh." W. H. Auden. "Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles he has overcome." Booker T. Washington.

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Wiserafter90 @wiserafter90.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

"Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble." Frank Tyger. "Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others." Jacob M. Braude. "Growing old is mandatory. Growing up is optional." Zack Polanski.

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Wiserafter90 @wiserafter90.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

"I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable." Anne Morrow Lindbergh. Internet down all day yesterday until noon today.

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Wiserafter90 @wiserafter90.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

"God loved the birds and invented trees. Man loved the birds and invented cages." Jacques Deval. "When a man steals your wife there is no better revenge than to let him keep her." Sacha Guitry. "You can close your eyes to reality but not to memories." Stanislaw J. Lec.

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Wiserafter90 @wiserafter90.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Sign in antique shop: "Unattended children will be sold and proceeds donated to family planning clinics." "Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society." Mark Twain. "Diplomacy is the art of letting someone else have your way." Danielle Vare.

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Wiserafter90 @wiserafter90.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"To know someone here or there with whom you feel there is understanding in spite of distances or thoughts unexpressed--that can make of this earth a garden." Johann Wolfgang Goethe. "Some women are not beautiful--they only look as though they are." Karl Kraus.

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Wiserafter90 @wiserafter90.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

"The professor was just out of surgery when the staff came to tell him there was a serious error. They had removed his glossary instead of his appendix." Anon. "The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool." Stephen King. "Forgetfulness is a form of freedom." Khalil Kibran.

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Wiserafter90 @wiserafter90.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

"It is neither wealth nor splendour, but tranquility and occupation which gives happiness." Thomas Jefferson. "Laughter is the lightning rod of play, the eroticism of conversation." Eva Hoffman. "Laughter is the shortest distance between two people." Victor Borge.

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Wiserafter90 @wiserafter90.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"Notice: This place requires no physical fitness program. Everyone gets enough exercise jumping to conclusions, flying off the handle, running down the boss, knifing colleagues in the back, dodging responsibility, and pushing their luck." "We must silence those who oppose freedom of speech." Anon.

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Wiserafter90 @wiserafter90.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"Luck? I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else: Hard work--and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't." Lucille Ball. "Time is a dress-maker specializing in alterations." Faith Baldwin.

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Wiserafter90 @wiserafter90.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

"There is a Law that man should love his neighbor as himself. In a few hundred years it should be as natural to mankind as breathing or the upright gait; but if he does not learn it he must perish." Alfred Adler. "In youth we learn, in age we understand." Marie von Eschenbach.

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Wiserafter90 @wiserafter90.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

"Any man is liable to err, only a fool persists in error." Cicero. "It's not dying for faith that's so hard, it's living up to it." William Makepeace Thackeray. "There is no fun in doing nothing when you have nothing to do." Jerome K. Jerome.

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Wiserafter90 @wiserafter90.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

"I have found that when you are deeply troubled, there are things you get from the silent, devoted companionship of a dog that you can get from no other source." Doris Day. "Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength." Leo Buscaglia.

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Wiserafter90 @wiserafter90.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

"Mistrust makes life difficult, trust makes it risky." Mason Cooley. "I love talking about nothing. It's the only thing I know anything about." Oscar Wilde. "The causes of events are ever more interesting than the events themselves." Cicero. "If speaking is silver, then listening is gold." Anon.

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Wiserafter90 @wiserafter90.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

"Success isn't permanent, and failure isn't fatal." Mike Ditka. "Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect." Samuel Johnson. "To get peace, if you want, make yourself a nest of pleasent thoughts to curl up inside of each night." John Ruskin.

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Wiserafter90 @wiserafter90.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

"The cat is the animal to whom the Creator has given the biggest eyes, the softest fur, the most supremely delicate nostrils, a mobile ear, an unrivaled paw and a curved claw borrowed from a rose tree." Colette. [Sidonie-Gabrielle]. "Laughter is by definition healthy." Doris Lessing.

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Wiserafter90 @wiserafter90.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

"I meant to exercise more yesterday, but it just didn't workout." "Taking joy in life is a woman's best cosmetic and a man's best response." Wiserafter90. On his deathbed at 100, asked where he would like to be buried: "Surprise me." said Bob Hope. "Every artist was first an amateur." Emerson.

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Wiserafter90 @wiserafter90.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I'm 94 and laugh quite frequently, including at posts like this.

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Wiserafter90 @wiserafter90.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

"Believe it or not, every fool you meet is the end result of millions of years of evolution." "If we had our lives to live over again, we could make the same mistakes much more easily." Anon. "He lives doubly who also enjoys the past." Marcus Morton.

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Wiserafter90 @wiserafter90.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

"No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens." Abraham Lincoln. "The cat is the only animal that accepts the comforts but rejects the bondage of domesticity." Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon. "The ideal of calm exists in a sitting cat." Joles Renard.

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Wiserafter90 @wiserafter90.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

"A country cannot simultaneously prepare for and prevent war." Albert Einstein. "How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children." Charles Darwin. "Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls & looks like work." Thomas Edison.

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Wiserafter90 @wiserafter90.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

"Football is not a contact sport. It's a collision sport. Dancing is a contact sport." Duffy Daugherty. "Football: A sport that bears the same relation to education that bullfighting does to agriculture." Elbert Hubbard. "Water, taken in moderation, cannot hurt anyone." Mark Twain.

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Wiserafter90 @wiserafter90.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

"When I get an invitation to hug I embrace it." "A pessimist is one who looks both ways before crossing a one way street." Wiserafter90. "I will never be an old man, To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am." Bernard Baruch. "You can't have everything. Where can you put it." Steven Wright.

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Wiserafter90 @wiserafter90.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

"Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do." Oscar Wilde. "Free thinkers are generally those who don't think at all." Laurence Stern. "You know you are getting old when all the names in your little black book have MD after them." Harrison Ford.

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Wiserafter90 @wiserafter90.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Some news headlines: "Court to Try Beating Victim" "March Planned for August" "Teacher Strikes Idle Kids" "City Homeless Cut in Half" "Lawyers Give Poor Advice" "Man Gets Year in Violin Case" "Feds Discover Crack in LA". What ever happened to proof reading?

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Wiserafter90 @wiserafter90.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

"Reading connects us at the deepest levels; it is slow, rather than fast. That is its beauty and its challenge: in a culture of instant information, it requires us to pace ourselves." David L. Ulin. "To escape criticism--do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." Elbert Hubbard.

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Wiserafter90 @wiserafter90.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

"Keep some room in your heart for the unimaginable." Mary Oliver. "Failure seldom stops you. What stops you is the fear of failure." Jack Lemmon. "The wonder is that we can see these trees and not wonder more." Ralph Waldo Emerson. "Talking comes by nature--silence by understanding." Anon.

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Wiserafter90 @wiserafter90.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

"Be ambitious to live, content with small means; seek elegance rather than luxury, refinement rather than fashion; be worthy, not just respectable; & wealthy, not rich. Listen to stars & birds, to babes & sages with open heart. Always let the spiritual grow up through the common. W. E. Channing.

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Wiserafter90 @wiserafter90.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

And anyway, it would be our own money in the first place.

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Wiserafter90 @wiserafter90.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

"Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. The third is to be kind." Henry James. "Kindness is the highest form of intelligence." Walter Teasdale. "Outer beauty is a gift. Inner beauty is an accomplishment." R. G. Fine.

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Wiserafter90 @wiserafter90.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

"Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better." Ralph Waldo Emerson. "If you want your children to be bright, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be brilliant, read them even more fairy tales." Albert Einstein.

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Wiserafter90 @wiserafter90.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

"Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside." Mark Twain. "A mother is a person who seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people promptly announces she never did care for pie." Tenneva Jordan.

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Wiserafter90 @wiserafter90.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

"Every man (person) in the world is better than someone else and not as good as someone else." William Saroyan. "If a dog jumps in your lap, it is because he is fond of you, but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer." Alfred North Whitehead.

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Wiserafter90 @wiserafter90.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Not depressed but it is a little sad to continually see everyone you have gotten to know well gradually leaving your life forever. I still love to spread a little cheer daily as long as I can.

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Wiserafter90 @wiserafter90.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Tuesday past I saw my doctor for a check of my medications & supplements. He discontinued one medicine then asked questions about my eating. That produced a printed diet which he recommended, a 'longevity' diet to replace mine. When does longevity kick in? I'm 94.

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Wiserafter90 @wiserafter90.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

"Senator: Person who makes laws in Washington when not doing time." & "When in doubt, tell the truth." "When I was younger I could remember anything, whether it happened or not." Mark Twain. "I still feel young at heart but somewhat older just about everywhere else." Wiserafter90.

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Wiserafter90 @wiserafter90.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Just some idle thoughts. "Dust: It's what gives our home a warm, fuzzy feeling." "Bacteria: The only culture some people have." "Is it just coincidence that 'listen' and 'silent' have the same six letters?" "You can't buy happiness but you can buy books and that's kind of the same thing." Anon.

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Wiserafter90 @wiserafter90.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

"For a balanced life you need a dog to adore you and a cat to ignore you." "In our home we do grace, we do mistakes, we do real, we do sorry, we do funny, we do loud, we do hugs, we do family, we do love." Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting." Anon.

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Wiserafter90 @wiserafter90.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

"There was no respect for youth when I was young, and now that I am old there is no respect for age--I missed it coming and going." J. B. Priestly. "You have more birthdays, you get older. What's the solution? Stop having birthdays."My train of thought just derailed; no survivors." Wiserafter90.

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Wiserafter90 @wiserafter90.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

"The word 'happiness' exists in every language; it is plausible the thing itself exists." Jorge Luis Borges. "Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance and order and rhythm and harmony." Thomas Merton. "Aging? The time of life when actions creak louder than words." Anon.

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Wiserafter90 @wiserafter90.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

"Love is about curiosity, not certainty, and it can come in many different packages and arrangements and still be the same thing--no better, no worse." Daniel James. "I don't do alcohol any more--I get the same effect just standing up fast." Anon.

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Wiserafter90 @wiserafter90.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

"Sometimes I am greatly refreshed by doing nothing and then taking a little rest." Wiserafter90. "Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't." Margaret Thatcher. "Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it." Henry David Thoreau.

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