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Oh, the comfort

Oh, the comfort – the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person – having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are, chaff and grain together; certain that a faithful hand will … Continue reading

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The universe is like a safe

The universe is like a safe to which there is a combination.  But the combination is locked up in the safe. Peter De Vries, Let Me Count the Ways, 1965

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If you ever find happiness by hunting

If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it, as the old woman did her lost spectacles, safe on her own nose all the time. Josh Billings

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Criticizing your friends

If it’s very painful for you to criticize your friends – you’re safe in doing it.  But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that’s the time to hold your tongue. Alice Duer Miller

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The blessing it is to have a friend

But oh! the blessing it is to have a friend to whom one can speak fearlessly on any subject; with whom one’s deepest as well as one’s most foolish thoughts come out simply and safely.  Oh, the comfort – the … Continue reading

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Free society

My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular. Adlai Stevenson, speech, Detroit, 1952

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